The Flooding issues are facing by small-scale rice farmers in South Sumatra, Indonesia

Abstract

Flood become most vurnerable climate change hazard in Indonesia and, most frequent climate change impact in Indonesia. This affecting rice farmers' ability to maintain their sustainable livelihood, it causes harvest loss, fluctuation of productivity and loss of income for their livelihood. The limited facilities of farming because there no budget from the government to build farming infrastructure in hitterland were the small-scale farmers’ in, with lower income and lower knowledge. This study aims are to identify the issues of flood are facing by small scale farmers in South Sumatra Indonesia. In this study, secondary data analysis will be used to explain how a flood in south Sumatra occurs. The information will be presented as a chart and graph with tabulated measurement. This study offers information that can be used to characterize the flood situation and identify the flood issue at the study location. this research result are profiling the small scale farmers those are affected by the flood, and find out the significant factors are needed to overcome floods and offer helpful guidance on how to maintain small-scale rice farmers in the face of floods.