Abstract
The agricultural sector's strategic roles for economic growth, including, among others: providing food for the Indonesian population, earning the country's foreign exchange through exports, providing industrial raw materials, increasing employment and business opportunities, increasing regional revenues, and alleviating poverty. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) stated that food self-sufficiency occurs when everyone in every moment can access food both physically and economically to meet their daily needs. Drylands have characteristics such as water shortage, erosion sensitivity, low land productivity, high variability in soil fertility, limited plant species, low adoption of advanced technology, minimal capital availability, and inadequate infrastructure. Small islands are islands ecologically separated from the mainland island, have clear physical boundaries, and are isolated from the parent island's habitats, so they are insular. Small islands usually have relatively small catchment areas, are vulnerable to global warming, sensitive to natural disasters, isolated and far from the main market, open to small-scale economic systems, have high population growth rates, have limited infrastructure and education, and limited skills of its inhabitants. Small islands have a high rate of land degradation that threatens the long-term sustainability of agriculture. Technologies that can be applied to dryland on small islands are conservation farming, LIESA system, Biointensive Gardening, Dusung, Agropasture, Sloping Agricultural Land Technology (SALT), Rounders type, No-tillage, and small island weed management. This paper is an ideal contribution to overcome the food problem in small islands that generally have drylands. It was presented at the National Seminar of the Indonesian Agronomy Association (PERAGI) in Bogor
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