Home Gardens as a Source of Medicinal Plants and Its Conservation to Biodiversity: Challenges and Opportunities to Actualize In Urban City Areas
Kristiyanto, Widia Hesti, Nur Fadila, Ricka Setia P, Ira Christa P, Megawati M
Indraprasta PGRI University, South Jakarta
Abstract
Creating and developing of home gardens functions to welfare of local people and it-s has considered as a source of medicinal plants and its biodiversity. The method was used to identifying of how far the local people of urban city has utilized home gardens functions in their living, which were inventories and analysis process in this research that used to measure of plant diversity (biodiversity), beside the direct observation and in depth interview methods. The result of this research has obtained some of plant species in home garden and its used to local people in their living were example of plant of vegetable species (22,6%), plant of flavor species (8,4%), plant of adorned species (22,6%), plant of fruit species (14,3%), and which plant species as medicinal is more used to local people at least 32,1% than the other plant species. Utilized of yard or home gardens as human being in meet a demand of family and community scale, at this time has many of needs to pay an attention to all of side, because the role and its contribution of home gardens was more advantageous kindly of economic, social, and ecological aspects and it-s a part of social resilience systems goals.
Keywords: Biodiversity, Ecological health, Home gardens, Local People, Social resilience, Urban City
Topic: Botany