| Summary: | This study aims to know human assets, natural, physical, financial, and social, to identify level of
poverty and food security in critical and non critical land areas, to analyze factors affecting level
of food security, to identify linkages between poverty and food security. The research was
conducted in Keduang Subwatershed Wonogiri District, determined purposively covering
upstream, midstream, and downstream which describes the land area of critical and non critical.
The respondents are 120 farmers, randomly selected with 20 farmers in each location. The results
show that human assets (age, education, farming experience, number of household), natural (land
area, tree assets), physical (vehicles), financial (savings, jewelry, cattle), social (solidarity, trust
and cooperation, conflict resolution) in the critical land areas are similar to the non critical, while
agricultural equipment in critical land areas is lower than the non critical. Poverty in the critical is
higher than the non critical areas based on criteria Sajogyo, World Bank, Asian Development
Bank (ADB), and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), whereas according to the criteria
of BPS Wonogiri District in areas of critical and non critical land not classified as poor. Food
security in critical is lower than the non critical areas. Factors affecting food security are
education, land area, number of household, food expenditure, non food expenditure. Poverty and
food security are intertwined, percentage of vulnerable households within non poor households are
found enough high where sometime the vulnerable household be able to change into insecure
category if the food supply is not sufficient.
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