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 decisionmaking
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.