Open AccessLivelihoods survival strategy of sharecropper household in Sumbawa District, West Nusa Tenggara and Tasikmalaya Districts, West Java
Author(s) -
D. Diniyatiand,
Budiman Achmad
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/533/1/012022
Subject(s) - livelihood , business , agriculture , investment (military) , agricultural science , agricultural economics , government (linguistics) , socioeconomics , economic growth , geography , economics , political science , linguistics , philosophy , environmental science , archaeology , politics , law
Sharecroppers need their own strategy of livelihood survival due to low income from the farming of dry land and paddy field. This paper aims to evaluate the strategy of livelihoods survival of farmers at two research plots located in Cukangkawung village, Tasikmalaya District and Labuhan Badas Village, Sumbawa Districts. The research Ade was conducted in February and April 2017. The data were collected through observation and interviews with 30 farmers in Cukangkawung and 30 farmers in Labuhan Badas and analyzed descriptively. The result revealed that farmers in both locations showed different strategies of livelihood survival, although identical in characteristic. It was due to tenurial factors. The Cukangkawung’s farmers practice agroforestry in both village and private lands, while the Labuhan Badas farmers only in the state land. The Cukangkawung’s farmers earned income by implementing a set of strategies by intensifying and extensively farming business, increase value-added, get a transfer from children, and make an investment, while Labuhan Badas farmers neither able to intensify farming business nor increase added value. They also decrease the consumption of food, clothing, and medicines. They broaden friendship, create brotherhood, and help each other to make lending and borrowing money easier. It is strongly recommended for local government to facilitate farmers to access the new business center through training, business meeting, and linking to the market to improve farmer livelihood.