Self-Reliance of Community Food Barns in Kapuas District, Central Kalimantan

This paper aims to determine the self-reliance of community food barns, so that it meets the food reserves sourced from domestic production, and is a layered reserve system. The development of community food barns is carried out in the context of empowering and protecting the community from food insecurity, by facilitating physical storage of barns, replenishing food reserves and strengthening institutional groups. Through this empowerment the community is expected to be able to manage the existing food reserves in the group, and also be able to increase their role in carrying out economic functions for their members so that they are able to maintain and develop their food reserves.