Land Boundaries Research Articles

The spatio-temporal trends of urban green space and its interactions with urban growth: Evidence from the Yangtze River Delta region, China

The role of urban green space (UGS) in urban sustainability is attracting increasing attention from researchers. How to achieve greener cities in urban development is an urgent problem to be solved. In this study, we investigate the spatio-temporal variation of UGS and its relationship with urban growth in different socio-economic development phases based on an empirical analysis of cities in the Yangtze River Delta region in China during a period of rapid urban development (2001–2019). The remote sensing data reveal a changing UGS pattern that declined notably in the first decade and has increased slightly since 2012, with the green areas mainly clustered in urban centers. We use piecewise linear regression to investigate the impacts of urban growth on UGS from the perspective of growth in the economy, population, and land — in four socio-economic development phases. The results show that the growth of the economy and population reduced UGS in the initial stage of development. Recently, there is more awareness of the importance of environmental issues in socio-economic development. Further, the growth of the economy and population could promote UGS in recent years. Meanwhile, the expansion of urban land boundaries could provide more spaces for UGS. However, the growth of urban land is contrary to the sustainable and compact development of the city. Finally, we discuss the potential of urban growth to improve urban environment, and propose nature-based solutions to mitigate the conflicts between urban compactness and UGS layout. This study supplements the theory of urban growth and the environment with evidence from Chinese cities and offers insights into sustainable urban development in developing regions.

The Archaeology of the Commons

The literature is rich in descriptions of different forms of commons in the later pre-industrial agrarian society of northern Sweden. The industrial era resulted in a noticeable shift in the use of forests and in the introduction of firmer property rights and rigid land boundaries. A large number of commons from the pre-industrial period has never been officially registered and can therefore partly be seen as ‘hidden’ resources. The objective of this paper is to discuss the concept of commons in relation to a variable archaeological record, mainly associated with the forested regions of Sweden. Is it possible to identify commons by an archaeological landscape approach and to what extent can a long-term perspective contribute to current theoretical discussions concerned with commons?

Земельный участок как объект гражданских прав

The parcel of land notion is examined in the context of modern Russian economic and legal policy. The amendments made to the civil legislation during the reform process of law of things, which took place in 2021, are analyzed. In particular, the definition of a parcel of land included in the Civil Code is evaluated. The research contains a comparative analysis of “parcel of land” definitions existing in Russian land legislation, European legislation and doctrine at different periods of time. It was found that the term “ground surface” used to define a parcel of land should be considered in mathematical signification. This means that the parcel of land is a 2D object (land boundary, two-dimensional topological manifold). For this reason, the widespread point of view on the parcel of land as a 3D object is seemed to be erroneous because of its logical and legal aberration. It is argued that the ground surface, being the boundary separating land and midair, cannot include 3D objects located on it. Accordingly, soil layer, all kind of structures, bodies of water, perennial plantations cannot be part of a plane parcel of land because they are 3D objects. It is proposed to consider a parcel of land, buildings located thereon and other material objects as components of another complex (composite) object. Such object could be named as real estate – an integral immovable complex of objects which contains the parcel of land, corresponding to it buildings, underground structures and other firmly connected to the land material objects.

Земельный участок как объект гражданских прав

The parcel of land notion is examined in the context of modern Russian economic and legal policy. The amendments made to the civil legislation during the reform process of law of things, which took place in 2021, are analyzed. In particular, the definition of a parcel of land included in the Civil Code is evaluated. The research contains a comparative analysis of “parcel of land” definitions existing in Russian land legislation, European legislation and doctrine at different periods of time. It was found that the term “ground surface” used to define a parcel of land should be considered in mathematical signification. This means that the parcel of land is a 2D object (land boundary, two-dimensional topological manifold). For this reason, the widespread point of view on the parcel of land as a 3D object is seemed to be erroneous because of its logical and legal aberration. It is argued that the ground surface, being the boundary separating land and midair, cannot include 3D objects located on it. Accordingly, soil layer, all kind of structures, bodies of water, perennial plantations cannot be part of a plane parcel of land because they are 3D objects. It is proposed to consider a parcel of land, buildings located thereon and other material objects as components of another complex (composite) object. Such object could be named as real estate – an integral immovable complex of objects which contains the parcel of land, corresponding to it buildings, underground structures and other firmly connected to the land material objects.

The 'new' Customary Land Tenure in Zambia: Implications for Women's Land Rights and Livelihoods

ABSTRACT: This paper argues that the formalisation of customary land through a rural certification programme in Nyimba District, Zambia, has triggered the establishment of a new tenure regime that transcends the dualism between western legal forms of private property and idealised customary systems. Within this agrarian transition, the number of social conflicts over land boundaries have fallen, at least in the short term; women's perceptions of tenure security have improved, and women's participation in land administration at the local level has increased. In addition, a significant number of married women have registered residential land and farmland in their own names. However, the transition has also produced a number of negative impacts. Multiple land claims by women have been dismissed and men have continued to dominate power relations in the district. Certification has not necessarily led to greater access to credit, improved agricultural productivity, or a rise in investment. Informal land markets have become more expensive with certification producing a veneer of legitimacy for buying and selling customary land even though such transactions remain, strictly speaking, illegal. On the other hand, agrarian support has been skewed to the benefit of wealthier, better-connected, and dominant women with land-holding certificates and to the detriment of less-powerful women. Accordingly, many of the envisaged benefits of formalisation through an evolutionary approach to land tenure rights have not been realised. The argument developed in this paper is based on original field data obtained through quantitative household surveys, indepth interviews and focus group discussions.

AFRICAN UNION (AU) REGIONAL INTEGRATION AGENDA AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN WEST AFRICAN SUBREGION: A STUDY OF NIGERIA AND NIGER REPUBLIC

The Organization of African Unity (OAU) was transformed into the African Union (AU) in July year 2002, due to the resolution of African leaders to reposition the continental organization for better performance. This paper examines AU regional integration agenda and socio-economic development in West African sub-Region: a study of Nigeria and Niger Republic. The two countries share a common land boundary which covers over thousand kilometers. Historically speaking, they were both colonial creation of Britain and France respectively which was said to have born out of series of negations, treaties and conquests during the first decade of the 20thCentury. By 1960, the two countries got their political independence and have since exchange diplomatic missions and entered into various bilateral relations which border on trade, industry, culture, education and politics with a view to improving the socio-economic and political life of the citizenry. The duo established the Nigeria- Niger Joint Commission for cooperation in March, 1971 as a strategy towards promoting their socio-economic development. However, one of the perceived major problems to effective trade and integration in most Regional Economic Commissions is lack of political will. This is because most countries resist liberalization and tend toward protectionist policies to protect trade. Premised on this fact, how the AU hoped to effectively achieve its integration agenda particularly, as it affects Nigeria and Niger republic remains a serious challenge and a major concern for this paper. Methodologically, the paper adopted qualitative method that uses interview as instrument for data collection and this was supported with documents data. The findings from the results revealed that in terms of the impact of AU regional integration agenda on socio-economic development of Nigeria and Niger republic, there has been a lot of achievements. The two countries are said to be intertwined politically, religiously and socioculturally and any other forms one can think of. The findings from the results further identified major challenges confronting the AU in the integration of the two countries and Africa at large. These include; lack of political will; limited intra-African trade; funding problem; underdeveloped infrastructure etc. For better performance of the organization and the two countries, the paper recommended among others; the need for strong political will on the part of African leaders to turn policies and resolutions into actions at national levels

Multi-scale flow structure and its effect on momentum flux in the coastal marine atmospheric boundary layer

To accurately calculate the turbulent exchange coefficient, the contribution of multi-scale turbulent transportation needs to be considered, especially in the complex terrain of the coastal area. In September 2019, a comprehensive observation experiment on the offshore atmospheric boundary layer was carried out at the Yangmeikeng Ecological Monitoring Station and Sai Chung Gulf. Through scale decomposition, it is shown that the turbulent motion in the atmospheric boundary layer in the coastal area is affected by the underlying surface, such as that of the coastal land or the sea–land boundary. This is the main reason behind the phenomenon whereby different scales make different contributions to momentum flux. Different multi-scale characteristics of turbulent structures on the underlying surface affect the drag coefficient. Through wavelet transform and finite element method, the characteristics of the multi-scale flow structures produced by the complicated offshore terrain are analysed. It is found that large-scale flow structures enhance the pulsating intensity at the small scale, but the large-scale coherence characteristics are different from those at the small scale. In summary, in comparing these three sites, the flux exchange on the roof is greatest, followed by that on the tower. In the Gulf, the flux exchange is mainly dependent on small-scale structures, which are linked with the smallest values.

The Implementation Of Re-Measurement Due To The Difference In The Land Area Listed On Certificates With Factual Land Area (Case Study In Pekanbaru Land Office)

This article aims to explain the factors that cause the difference between juridical data and physical data/actual data in Land Title Certificate, and appropriate legal protection. This is yuridis empirical research and qualitative approach with descriptive explanatory technique. Research location at Pertanahan of Pekanbaru City`s office. This research revealed that the re-measurement caused by the incompatibility between the land area stated in the measuring letter and the land factual data at the Pekanbaru City Land Office has not been carried out properly, this is because there are still many applications for re-measurement that have not been completed. The Obstacles in re-measurement implementation include incomplete application files, shifts between the boundaries owned, and the existence of borders that do not want to sign new land boundaries. The efforts to overcome obstacles as well as legal protection for land rights certificate holders containing differences in factual data and juridical data are to make agreements for parties who do not want to restore land boundaries, settlement can be amicably by mediation by the land office, if it cannot be resolved amicably, then the rights holder can carry out legal liability by filing a lawsuit with the court.

Applicability Analysis of GF-2PMS and PLANETSCOPE Data for Ground Object Recognition in Karst Region

Remote sensing image with high spatial and temporal resolution is very important for rational planning and scientific management of land resources. However, due to the influence of satellite resolution, revisit period, and cloud pollution, it is difficult to obtain high spatial and temporal resolution images. In order to effectively solve the “space–time contradiction” problem in remote sensing application, based on GF-2PMS (GF-2) and PlanetSope (PS) data, this paper compares and analyzes the applicability of FSDAF (flexible spatiotemporal data fusion), STDFA (the spatial temporal data fusion approach), and Fit_FC (regression model fitting, spatial filtering, and residual compensation) in different terrain conditions in karst area. The results show the following. (1) For the boundary area of water and land, the FSDAF model has the best fusion effect in land boundary recognition, and provides rich ground object information. The Fit_FC model is less effective, and the image is blurry. (2) For areas such as mountains, with large changes in vegetation coverage, the spatial resolution of the images fused by the three models is significantly improved. Among them, the STDFA model has the clearest and richest spatial structure information. The fused image of the Fit_FC model has the highest similarity with the verification image, which can better restore the coverage changes of crops and other vegetation, but the actual spatial resolution of the fused image is relatively poor, the image quality is fuzzy, and the land boundary area cannot be clearly identified. (3) For areas with dense buildings, such as cities, the fusion image of the FSDAF and STDFA models is clearer and the Fit_FC model can better reflect the changes in land use. In summary, compared with the Fit_FC model, the FSDAF model and the STDFA model have higher image prediction accuracy, especially in the recognition of building contours and other surface features, but they are not suitable for the dynamic monitoring of vegetation such as crops. At the same time, the image resolution of the Fit_FC model after fusion is slightly lower than that of the other two models. In particular, in the water–land boundary area, the fusion accuracy is poor, but the model of Fit_FC has unique advantages in vegetation dynamic monitoring. In this paper, three spatiotemporal fusion models are used to fuse GF-2 and PS images, which improves the recognition accuracy of surface objects and provides a new idea for fine classification of land use in karst areas.

Analysis of perceived causes of conflicts among yam farmers in cross river state nigeria

This study assessed the causes of conflicts among yam farmers in Cross River State. The major objectives of the study were to; identify the socio-economic characteristics of yam farmers in the study area, identify the type of conflicts prevalent in the study area and assessed the causes of conflicts among yam farmers in the study area. A well structured questionnaire was used to elicit data from respondents. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to obtain information for the study. Descriptive statistics such as frequency counts, percentage, mean and standard deviation were used to analyse data obtained from respondents. The results of the socio-economic characteristics of the respondents revealed that a large number of the respondents had formal education, were married (58.0%), were aged between 20 to 40 years (49.0%), had household size 1-7 (75.0%) and were mostly farmers (60.0%). It was equally observed that conflicts were of many types across the zone namely; intergroup conflicts (͞X-2.04), family conflict (͞X=2.02), communal conflicts (͞X-2.05) and Tribal conflicts (͞X-1.99) among many others. The main causes of conflict among yam farmers were; land encroachment (͞X=2.83), Disagreement among family members on land issues (͞X=2.75), straying of cattle into yam farms (͞X=2.66) and land disagreement among traditional authorities (͞X=2.62) among very many others. The study recommend that land boundaries should be properly delineated and garsseted from time to time by traditional rulers in conjunction with the government of the day. This will help curb some cases of land conflicts in the study area.

Delineation of traditional village boundaries: The case of Haishangqiao village in the Yiluo River Basin, China.

In the conservation and development of traditional villages, it is vital to delineate reasonable village boundaries. At present, China's traditional village boundaries are mainly defined through the boundaries of village construction land in its land policy. This approach ignores the "natural" state of traditional village boundaries and does not truly reflect villagers' use of their villages. Using the constituent line segments of traditional village boundaries as parameters, we delineate a series of traditional village boundaries and constructed an assessment system for traditional village boundaries in terms of the convenience of villagers' activities and their habitual use of village space. We used the delineation of the boundary of Haishangqiao village in the Yiluo River Basin in China as an example to test the effectiveness of the traditional village boundary delineation method and assessment system. The results show the following: (1) The virtual line segments connecting the buildings on the traditional village boundary are the main factors affecting the delineation of the traditional village boundary. (2) The amplitude of vibration and the global deviation of traditional village boundaries are the main influencing factors of complexity. (3) The complexity of traditional village boundaries is negatively correlated with the convenience of villagers' activities. (4) The complexity of traditional village boundaries is negatively correlated with the emptiness of the internal space of traditional villages. The results of this study can provide practical reference values for scholars of rural planning, rural construction, rural conservation, rural management, and rural research.

Understanding the challenges and nature of land administration in the Tamale Metropolis, Northern Region, Ghana

Land plays an integral role in almost every economic activity. Land administration, therefore, is critical for the national development of a country. It is the hope and aspiration of many to own landed property for various reasons such as for residential, agricultural, and commercial purposes amongst others. Some African countries over the years have embarked on several land administration and land registration reforms to stimulate growth and reduce poverty amongst its people and these programmes are yielding positive results in some of these countries. This paper used semi-structured questionnaires to elicit information from fifty-one (51) participants in the Tamale Metropolitan Assembly, including traditional leaders, members of the general public who have ever registered their lands with the Lands Commission and Divisional heads at the Lands Commission, through randomly and purposefully selected sampling, respectively. This paper reveals that there are still teething challenges affecting land administration in Tamale which include the cost of land, cost of registration, corruption, weak coordination among land sector agencies, encroachment of state land, poor record-keeping on the land transaction and unidentified traditional land boundaries. This paper recommends effective coordination among land sector stakeholders including the land commission, land use and spatial planning authority and the traditional authorities for meaningful reforms on land administration. 

Tinjauan Yuridis Sosiologis Pelepasan Hak Atas Tanah Adat Menjadi Sertifikat Hak Milik di Distrik Arso Kabupaten Keerom Provinsi Papua

Part of the Keerom Regency area is a forest owned by the Keerom Indigenous people, in Articles 1 and 2 of the UUPA. the implementation of ulayat rights and similar rights of indigenous peoples, as long as in reality they still exist, must be so that they are in accordance with the national and state interests. The problem in this study is a sociological juridical review of the release of customary land rights into property rights certificates in Keerom Regency. This study raises the problem studied are, First how to release customary land rights to become property rights certificates. Second, what are the obstacles to releasing customary land rights into title certificates? Third, what are the efforts to overcome the obstacles to the Release of Customary Land Rights into Ownership Certificates in Keerom Regency? The research was conducted using a sociological juridical approach. Sources of data, primary data, secondary data, and tertiary flat. Data collection techniques are observation, interviews, and document studies. Based on the results of research and discussion; First, the transfer of rights carried out by indigenous peoples in Keerom Regency are of several kinds, namely; imnaway twa, Ken Baa, maafowor, Mararap Kambiswap, and Kin tuwri Ngkwaf. Second. obstacles, because customary land is not measured on the boundaries of the customary land. Third, to overcome obstacles, the Regional Government and Regency BPN must be active in conducting socialization with the community regarding the importance of registering land rights to ensure legal certainty. The author's suggestion in this study, the local government, and the customary council in Keerom Regency must make a regulation related to customary land so that customary land has legal clarity regarding land ownership.

Stormier Southern Hemisphere induced by topography and ocean circulation

A defining feature of Earth's present-day climate is that the Southern Hemisphere is stormier than the Northern Hemisphere. Consistently, the Southern Hemisphere has a stronger jet stream and more extreme weather events than the Northern Hemisphere. Understanding the relative importance of land-ocean contrast, including topography, radiative processes, and ocean circulation for determining this storminess asymmetry is important and may be helpful for interpreting projections of future storminess. Here, we show that the stormier Southern Hemisphere is induced by nearly equal contributions from topography and the ocean circulation, which moves energy from the Southern to Northern Hemisphere. These findings are based on 1) diagnostic energetic analyses applied to observations and climate model simulations and 2) modifying surface (land and ocean) boundary conditions in climate model simulations. Flattening topography and prescribing hemispherically symmetric surface energy fluxes (the manifestation of ocean energy transport on the atmosphere) in a climate model reduce the storminess asymmetry from 23 to 12% and 11%, respectively. Finally, we use the energetic perspective to interpret storminess trends since the beginning of the satellite era. We show that the Southern Hemisphere has become stormier, consistent with implied ocean energy transport changes in the Southern Ocean. In the Northern Hemisphere, storminess has not changed significantly consistent with oceanic and radiative (increased absorption of sunlight due to the loss of sea ice and snow) changes opposing one another. The trends are qualitatively consistent with climate model projections.

How long is the last mile? Evaluating successful malaria elimination trajectories

BackgroundMany national malaria programmes have set goals of eliminating malaria, but realistic timelines for achieving this goal remain unclear. In this investigation, historical data are collated on countries that successfully eliminated malaria to assess how long elimination has taken in the past, and thus to inform feasible timelines for achieving it in the future.MethodsAnnual malaria case series were sought for 56 successful elimination programmes through a non-systematic review. Up to 40 years of annual case counts were compiled leading up to the first year in which zero locally acquired or indigenous cases were reported. To separate the period over which effective elimination efforts occurred from prior background trends, annual case totals were log transformed, and their slopes evaluated for a breakpoint in linear trend using the segmented package in R. The number of years from the breakpoint to the first year with zero cases and the decline rate over that period were then calculated. Wilcox-Mann-Whitney tests were used to evaluate whether a set of territory characteristics were associated with the timelines and decline rates.ResultsCase series declining to the first year with zero cases were compiled for 45/56 of the candidate elimination programmes, and statistically significant breakpoints were identified for 42. The median timeline from the breakpoint to the first year with zero local cases was 12 years, over which cases declined at a median rate of 54% per year. Prior to the breakpoint, the median trend was slightly decreasing with median annual decline of < 3%. Timelines to elimination were fastest among territories that lacked land boundaries, had centroids in the Tropics, received low numbers of imported cases, and had elimination certified by the World Health Organization.ConclusionThe historical case series assembled here may help countries with aspirations of malaria elimination to set feasible milestones towards this goal. Setting goals for malaria elimination on short timescales may be most appropriate in isolated, low importation settings, such as islands, while other regions aiming to eliminate malaria must consider how to sustainably fund and maintain vital case management and vector control services until zero cases are reached.

Modeling and Evaluating Soil Salt and Water Transport in a Cultivated Land–Wasteland–Lake System of Hetao, Yellow River Basin’s Upper Reaches

With the implementation of water-conservation projects in the Hetao Irrigation District (HID), great changes have taken place in the ecohydrological process. A cultivated land–wasteland–lake system in the upper Yellow River Basin (YRB) was chosen to study the soil salt and water transport process with the Hydrus-1D model. The model parameters were calibrated and validated by measuring the soil salt and water data. Measured values were in good agreement with the simulated values. The results showed, in the whole growth period, the deep percolation of cultivated land was 34–40% of the total applied water (rainfall and irrigation). The capillary rise in the cultivated land, wasteland, and lake boundary was 24%, 29–35%, and 62–68% of their own evapotranspiration, respectively. The capillary rise in the lake boundary was about 2 times that of the wasteland and 2.6 times that of the cultivated land. The salt storage in the 1 m soil zone of the lake boundary was more than 10% and 18% greater than that of the wasteland and cultivated land, respectively. The salt of the capillary rise in the lake boundary exceeded that of the wasteland by a factor of three. The salt accumulation in the upper soil zone of the cultivated land, wasteland, and lake boundary was 13%, 37%, and 48%. Soil salinization in the upper soil zone of the wasteland and lake boundary was serious, and some measures should be taken to reduce the salt content to prevent soil salinization. The results act as a theoretical basis for the ecohydrological control of the HID.

INCOME DISTRIBUTION OF CORPORATE FARMING MODEL IN CENTRAL JAVA

Corporate farming is an agricultural model carried out with the principle of expanding the planting area by eliminating land boundaries. The aim is to improve group production and productivity. This agricultural model is also a solution to the conversion of functions and increasingly massive land fragmentation. As a result, the income obtained by farmers is limited to subsistence land. This study aimed to determine the income distribution of corporate farming model farmers in Sukoharjo Regency, Central Java. Sukoharjo Regency was chosen as the research location with consideration as a national food barn that implements corporate farming. Sampling using a census of 51 farmers. The study results show that farmers' incomes have reached a prosperous degree according to the World Bank's criteria. The distribution of farmers' income is even with a low level of income inequality.

Semantic segmentation of landcover for cropland mapping and area estimation using Machine Learning techniques

ABSTRACT The paper has focussed on the global landcover for the identification of cropland areas. Population growth and rapid industrialization are somehow disturbing the agricultural lands and eventually the food production needed for human survival. Appropriate agricultural land monitoring requires proper management of land resources. The paper has proposed a method for cropland mapping by semantic segmentation of landcover to identify the cropland boundaries and estimate the cropland areas using machine learning techniques. The process has initially applied various filters to identify the features responsible for detecting the land boundaries through the edge detection process. The images are masked or annotated to produce the ground truth for the label identification of croplands, rivers, buildings, and backgrounds. The selected features are transferred to a machine learning model for the semantic segmentation process. The methodology has applied Random Forest, which has compared to two other techniques, Support Vector Machine and Multilayer perceptron, for the semantic segmentation process. Our dataset is composed of satellite images collected from the QGIS application. The paper has derived the conclusion that Random forest has given the best result for segmenting the image into different regions with 99% training accuracy and 90% test accuracy. The results are cross-validated by computing the Mean IoU and kappa coefficient that shows 93% and 69% score value respectively for Random Forest, found maximum among all. The paper has also calculated the area covered under the different segmented regions. Overall, Random Forest has produced promising results for semantic segmentation of landcover for cropland mapping.

Geospatial tools offer fresh perspective on patient care.

By combining geographic information system (GIS) technology with data from electronic health records, health registries, and other sources, clinicians can have a powerful tool to improve patient care, says geospatial pharmacy specialist Jing Wu. Wu is a former account executive at Esri in Arlington, VA, where she helped healthcare organizations incorporate GIS technology into their platforms. She said that by viewing patients through a GIS lens, pharmacists and other clinicians are better able “to think about our patients within the context of their lives [and] create more targeted interventions.” “I think that’s going to be the standard of practice,” Wu added. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes GIS as computer-based tools for storing, visualizing, analyzing, and interpreting geographic data. The many things GIS data can map include disease cases, hospitals, clinic types and sites, roads, public transit routes, waterways, and land boundaries. CDC uses GIS data for research on population health, toxicology, chronic disease prevention, disease surveillance, and other health issues.

Exploration in utilization of Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet in Central Lombok Regency as a support in food security based on local germplasm management and conservation

Komak (generally assumed and known as Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet) is one of the important food commodities in Fabaceae family, especially for people on Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara. Komak bean is also one of the common plants which is widely grown on Lombok Island in general. The objects of this research are to explore the various uses on some morphological variants of komak plant in Central Lombok Regency as one of komak production area on Lombok Island, including its potency of development strategies. This descriptive exploratory research was conducted in Central Lombok Regency as one of the important areas for komak population, supported by interviews, participatory observation and documentation. Snowball sampling method was applied in informant selection. Data were analyzed based on the calculation of Reported Use (RU) and Index of Cultural Significance (ICS). As the results, there are about 10 (ten) utilizations of komak plant reported by the community: as food, yard plants, land boundaries, economic plants, natural fertilizers, ecological functions (soil cover/erosion prevention), animal feed, seasonal indicators, ritual, and socio-cultural functions. Dissemination of information about processing technology and utilization of komak plant are still needed in order to support the optimalization of the management and utilization of this commodity as one of potential legumes that has a strategic role in realizing national food security.