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PP0340-14
TitleStrategi Penghidupan Petani Agroforest Dalam Menghadapi Perubahan Cuaca Yang Tidak Menentu: Contoh Kasus Di Sulawesi Selatan Dan Sulawesi Tenggara
AuthorEndri Martini, Sonya Dewi, Janudianto, Anang Setiawan and James M Roshetko
EditorDevy Priambodo Kuswantoro, Tri Sulistyati Widyaningsih, Eva Fauziyah and Rina Rachmawati
Year2013
Parent TitleProsiding Seminar Nasional Agroforestri 2013. “Agroforestri untuk Pangan dan Lingkungan yang Lebih Baik”. Malang, 21 Mei 2013
PublisherBalai Penelitian Teknologi Agroforestry, Fakultas Pertanian Universitas Brawijaya, World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) - Southeast Asia Regional Program, and Masyarakat Agroforestri Indonesia
City of PublicationMalang, Indonesia
Date2013-05-21
Pages604-609
Call NumberPP0340-14
Keywordsoff-farm income, fruit trees, microcredit, rainfall, wind-storm
Abstract:
Climate change has resulted increasing intensity of natural hazards such as floods, droughts, wind-storm, that has caused failure in agricultural production and threaten farmers livelihood stability. Agroforest systems are known as the less vulnerable system to climate change, however, farmers will also need to develop strategy to cope with the negative impacts. Sulawesi is interesting as it is located in between wet west Indonesia with dry east Indonesia rainfall regime, where the communities may experience double impact if hazards happen consecutively from both regimes. Thus, this study was conducted to understand coping strategies of agroforest farmers in Sulawesi to survive with worst impacts of climate change. Information on farmer’s perception on natural hazards exposures, responses and coping capacities was collected through Focus Group Discussion (FGD) in 8-10 groups in South and Southeast Sulawesi. Results shows farmers in both provinces feel an increasing incidence of intensive rainfall and wind-storm over the past 10 years that has fluctuated their agriculture production. In agroforest systems, climate change has caused a decrease in fruit production or even zero production as for clove trees that resulted instability in farmers’ income. In that case farmers will migrate to urban areas to look for off farm source of livelihood as alternative. Farmers will manage their garden again if the weather is conducive. Farmers with no capacity to look for other source of livelihood, will borrow money with high interests (>20%) to the lenders. Thus, government programs for climate change adaptation also need to focus on microcredit and other programs to assist farmers in creating new sources of livelihoods if failure happens to their agricultural production.
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