Study of Urban Farming Potency to Support City Landscape Quality in the District of South Bogor

Abstract

The rapid conversion of agricultural land into a built space has an impact on the quality of the city landscape. Urban farming is agricultural practice efforts in urban areas by using narrow land to produce food to fulfill the needs of urban agricultural products, while providing the benefits of landscape services especially in improving the quality of urban landscapes. This study aims to identify the potency of urban farming in the district of South Bogor to support landscape quality of Bogor city including ecological quality, aesthetic quality, and social quality of the community. From the research identified areas of agriculture covering 1.609,19 ha and agricultural activities in 49 farmer groups at district of South Bogor. In addition, a total of 164 plant were identified with a plant diversity index value of 2,774 classified as moderate. The results of the descriptive analysis of the landscape aesthetics at district of South Bogor show that urban farming and borrowing landscape from Mount Salak and Mount Gede Pangrango are able to present an attractive aesthetics of the city landscape. The results of the chi-square test showed that the respondent’s background in the form of profession and education had a significant influence on the social interaction of the community in the farmer group. Landscape management recommendations consist of a basic concept to maintain agricultural land and urban agricultural activities with 7 landscape management strategies that can be through development actions in macro by Bogor city government and micro through agricultural activities by farmer groups at district of South Bogor.