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This research focuses on the experience of Wonogiri peasants in undertaking the local knowledge internalization to solve food crisis problem. It is related to climate change phenomenon affecting to the shift of growing seasion, having the dramatic loss shown by increasing crop failure and even drought disaster. Moreover, peasants and family could be trapped into the condition of being undernourished, impoverished and more dependent. On the other hand, Javanese conceptualization identifies people as part of community that is full of collectiveness spirit. It delivers everyone as agent to sustain that local culture through the principle of harmony; and food crisis is assumed as a threat to the balance. Bourdieu?s theory is used to analyze that the existence of value, culture and norms are meaningful capitals to be reproduced for creating safety mechanism as a negotiation when peasant community is faced with the oppression provided by food crisis risk. This paper suggests that the Javanese principle of harmony is a strong influence to develop some adaptable strategies by utilizing some chances through the cultural knowledge, power of neighborhood, potency of local organization in producing alternative solution. In individual level, harmony system also endorses people to be humble so that they could avoid consumptive habit.
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