The Livelihood Vulnerability of Spesific Organic Rice Farmers’ Household as the Effect of Climate Change in Tanggamus Region Lampung Province

Abstract

The study aimed to analyze the livelihood vulnerability index of both organic and non-organic rice farmers’ household as the effect of climate change. The sample was determined by a census comprising of 60 organic rice and 80 non-organic rice farmers who lived in Pematang Sawa Subdistrict, Tanggamus Region, Lampung Province. To measure the livelihood vulnerability of farmer’s household, the index of livelihood vulnerability was employed.

The results showed that the organic rice farmer’s household was more vulnerable to natural disaster and climate variability, water, consumption, education, and income than that of the non-organic rice farmer’s. Meanwhile, the non-organic rice farmer’s household was more vulnerable to agriculture and food. Based on the contribution, the LVI-IPCC of non-organic rice farmer’s household was more vulnerable to climate change than that of the organic rice farmer’s. To observe the household’s vulnerability to the effect of climate change, it was better to carry the study out in some different areas far away in distance (different regions/province), by expecting that the different climate components could significantly be influential. The effort to decrease the vulnerability level of rice farmer’s household was shown by delivering some information about climate objectively and continuously, thereby encouraging the farmers to adapt the effect of climate change well. Therefore, there must be some support needed in form of resources aid programs such as irrigation system or pumping well, and some breeds useful to increase the farmers’ income, alongside their agricultural businesses.

Keywords : vulnerability,  climate change, organic rice, Lampung Province