Climate Change: Readiness Of Sabah Household to Sustain Their Food Availability

Mardiana Muhiddin and Jupikely James Silip and Wan Hurani Osman and Rosmah Murdad and Nor Elliza Tajidin (2023) Climate Change: Readiness Of Sabah Household to Sustain Their Food Availability.

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Abstract

Climate change makes people more susceptible to sickness, for example; the outbreak of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) more likely to affected those in places with poor air quality. In other sides, it also affects food supply and distribution due to Movement Control Order (MCO) policy, hence, negatively impact the existing food insecurities situations among household. While urban farming has been used widely by other country to overcome such crisis especially in urban area, we distributed questionnaire and interviews some Tawau individual to determine their food security by observing their involvement in farming activity, food consumption, and finally the relation between edible garden ownership with healthy food consumption during the MCO. The policy force respondents to stocks up food during the phase and 78% of the respondents choose long-lasting type of foods as food stocks, which unconsciously influences their eating pattern during the outbreak. Only 25.9% respondent involve in edible-type garden, however, there are correlation between garden ownership with healthy food intake. This study shows that Tawau household is still relying on market to obtain healthy and fresh food sources. Three major factors that constraint respondents from gardening – no experience or knowledge, limited space and time, and rental issue. By spreading urban farming benefits, it might attract more individuals to involve in farming activities, thus, help improving their household food security especially on fresh and healthy food availability. It is recommended to have in-depth study about factors influence community participation and how urban farming help household secure their food sources daily.

Item Type:	Proceedings
Keyword:	Climate change, Sustainable, Food security, Urban farming
Subjects:	S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) > S1-(972) Agriculture (General) > S600-600.7 Agricultural meteorology. Crops and climate S Agriculture > SB Plant culture > SB1-1110 Plant culture > SB112 Irrigation farming
Department:	FACULTY > Faculty of Sustainable Agriculture
Depositing User:	SITI AZIZAH BINTI IDRIS -
Date Deposited:	05 Aug 2024 10:18
Last Modified:	05 Aug 2024 10:18
URI:	https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39408

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