Land Valuation, Policy Literacy, and Livelihoods in Peri-Urban Poultry Systems: Evidence from Indonesia

Rapid urban encroachment is compressing Indonesia's peri-urban farmland, raising uncertainty over siting, buffers, and rights an urgent threat to small and medium poultry producers and affordable protein access. We test whether producer perceptions of land valuation and their policy literacy jointly explain livelihood improvement in a peri-urban corridor of Malang Regency (East Java). A cross-sectional survey of 207 broiler producers was analyzed using PLS-SEM (SmartPLS) with three reflective constructs: land valuation, policy literacy, and livelihood improvement. The model explains 64.0% of variance in policy literacy and 53.3% in livelihood improvement. Land valuation is strongly and positively associated with policy literacy (β=0.800, p