(B. Ekonomi)
Crop Insurance Scheme Development to Reduce The Negative Impact of Climate Change in
Agricultural Land
Keywords: climate change, mitigation, crop insurance
Suryanto, Gravitiani, Evi; J.J. Sarungu
Fakultas Ekonomi UNS, Penelitian, BOPTN UNS, Hibah Bersaing, 2012
This study is part of the main purpose to develop crop insurance scheme. Crop insurance scheme is an alternative policy to increase food security in Indonesia. The study focused on the agricultural sector that be categorized as highly vulnerable to climate change. Climate change has potentially to cause drought because dry season period was longer than usual and floods because level of rainfall is very high. The study will be devided into three phases. The initial phase of this study were: (i) identify hazard area to floods, drought and pest attack in Karesidenan Surakarta (ii) valuation of the economic impact of natural disasters on the decline in production and income of farmers.
The research method used is quantitative research methods. Mapping of hazard of disaster areas was used Geographic Information System (GIS) and economic valuation losses with production loss approach as analysis tools. Factors that influence the decision to mitigate estimated by Contingent Valuation Method approach (CVM) approach. Sampling Method was used purposive sampling method, population of this research is the head of household at vulnerable of suffering losses due to climate change based on GIS mapping. The number of respondents that used in study is 373 households.