Abdullah, Gufran Darma Dirawan, Dan Nurlita Pertiwi
Urban farming system creates a balance of environmental and urban ecosystems as well as being part of the concept of Eco City. This study aimed to analyze the level of sustainability of the development of urban agriculture in Makassar in five dimensions (ecological, economic, social, technological and institutional), and identify sensitive determinant of sustainability attributes of each dimension. This study using by Multi-Dimensional Scaling Rapid Appraisal Urban Farming Makassar and the results in the form of index and status of sustainability. Leverage and Monte Carlo analysis is used to determine the attributes that are sensitive influence on the sustainability index and status. The results showed in the multidimensional development of urban farming in Makassar including unsustainable with criteria of sustainability index 47, 23%. Index values and status partially sustainability of each dimension respectively ecological and technological dimensions of 42.66% and 44.69% are less sustainable. While the economic, social, and institutional respectively 50.69%, 51.29%, and 51.04% are quite sustainable. Of the 55 attributes that were analyzed contained 31 sensitive attributes affect the sustainability of the development of urban agriculture in Makassar. The value of the correlation coefficient (R2) between 0.94 to 0.95 and the value of Stress (S) between 0.13 to 1.54 indicates analysis Rap-Makassar-Urfarm appropriate or valid to use in evaluating the sustainability of the development of urban farming in Makassar. © Serials Publications.
Faculty of Agriculture, University Muslim Indonesia, Indonesia; Post Graduate Program, Makassar State University, Indonesia
