Title: Development of Intervention Model of Staple Food Consumption Pattern from Rice Toward Alternative Staple Food: Consumer’s Belief
Abstract: Food security has become one of the global strategic issues. One of the important issues
related to food security in Indonesia is the dependency on rice as a staple food. The diversification
of food policy that is promoted by the government has not achieved optimally. In previous
studies, it is known that basically, people have a positive attitude towards alternative (nonrice
non-wheat) staple food. However, the intention to consume the alternative (non-rice nonwheat)
the staple food is low. Therefore, it is important to understand the supporting and obstacles to
change their staple food consumption pattern. By using factor analysis, this study found eight
supporting factors and also obstacles.
Keywords: staple food, food security, diversification.