Risk Analysis and Strategy of Rice Farmers in Swampland in the Face of Climate Change Impact (Case in South Kalimantan Province-Indonesia)

Subject Areas : Environmental policy and management

Yudi  Ferrianta ¹ (Lecturers in Faculty of Agriculture, Lambung Mangkurat University, Indonesia)
Muhammad  Fauzi Makki ² (Lecturers in Faculty of Agriculture, Lambung Mangkurat University, Indonesia)

Received: 2015-08-08 Accepted : 2015-08-08 Published : 2015-06-01

Keywords: Risk, Swampland, Farmers’ adaptation, Climate Change,

Abstract :

The impact of climate change does not only affect the production aspects but also on household income and other socioeconomic aspects. The research aims to determine the household economic behaviors of rice farmers in decision-making with relation to the production risks due to climate change and determine the farmer’s adaptation strategies in the face of climate change. The approach taken is the production risk analysis using the coefficient variance. The result shows that the farmers’ behavior to manage rice farming in the tidal area has neutral risk behavior. This means that if there is a risk or possibility of risk recurrence towards rice farming, thus the decision maker (farmer) still does not reduce or enlarge the scale of their business. Adaptation strategies adopted by farmers in swampland consists of short, medium and long term strategies. The improved adaptive capacity on farm level should be through planned adaptation whose development is conducted by the government to be synergistic and rely on autonomous adaptation that has been a tradition in the farmers community.

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