Determinant Factor of Food Farming Vulnerability in Banten Province To Support Climate Change Adaptation

Abstract

Food crop is one of the most impacted agricultural sectors by climate related disaster. The negative impacts of climate related disaster could be assessed by its vulnerability level that depends on various indicators including exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. This paper aims to identify the determinant factors that influence the vulnerability of food farming based on the characteristics of land resources, climate and water, and socio-economic factors at the district level in Banten Province, and to develop recommendations on climate adaptation. Identification of the dominant factors, which most contribute to the level of vulnerability, is one of the main considerations to determine the strategy of adaptation. Our results showed that the main determinant factors varied among districts. The most important factors were Oldeman’s climate type (SEI12), the ratio of the number of extension agents to rice field area (ACI3), and the ratio of the number of farmer groups to rice field area (ACI4). SEI12 deals with the climate, whereas ACI3 and ACI4 are related human resources and institutions. Further, although urban area had high exposure and sensitivity as in rural area, but the adaptive capacity for the urban area was still high. Therefore, the level of vulnerability was reduced in urban, but still high in rural area. More efforts are expected to adapt climate related disaster in rural area.

Optimization of Newly Opened Rice Fields on Tidal Swamp Through Superior Rice Varieties in Bulungan District

“…However, converting swamp to rice fields will trigger many adverse impacts in terms of their biophysical, socioeconomic, and institutional aspect (Surahman et al, 2018). Several problems will raise such as sea-water runoff (Weissman and Tully, 2020), high amount of Al 3+ , Fe 2+ , and H + causing low concentration of Ca, Mg, K, and Mo (Dawid and Hailu, 2017); the leaching of Ca 2+ , Mg 2+ , and K + resulting in acid soil; the low amount of P, Cu, Zn and B leading to low soil fertility (Mugo et al, 2020); frequent pest and disease attacks; lack of superior seeds utilization; ferro toxicity (Suciantini et al, 2008); climate factors (Suciantini et al, 2020), and only once a year rice planting time (Maruapey et al, 2020;Paiman et al, 2020). By managing the constraints, the newly opened rice fields in the tidal swamp will support the provision of rice, for both regional and national demand.…”

Farmer’s perception on climate-related disasters and their impacts to support food farming

“…Adaptation steps and mitigation against the events of the climate need to be done to minimize the impact and risk if a disaster occurs. Various research related to climate change adaptation and mitigation that can be done by farmers have been carried out by varying conditions of climate and natural resources that are available [11,12]. The implementation of strategies with technology and the right way of thinking by paying attention to environmental aspects in dealing with climate problems has proven to be able to increase agricultural efficiency and can help reduce the impact of climate change in the future [13].…”