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Self-Organization And Crop Insurance To Enhance Livelihood Resilience: A Case Of Rice Farmers In Cirebon Regency, Indonesia, Nila Pratiwi, Mahawan Karuniasa, Djoko Suroso

ASEAN Journal of Community Engagement

Climate variability and change that affect extreme weather events has resulted long dry season and drought in Indonesia. Farmers become a vulnerable group since drought has damaged rice fields and as consequence losing their income. Therefore, rice farmers’ livelihood resilience needs to be enhanced in order to cope with those impacts. Crop insurance as financial capital could contribute to famers’ income stability from drought. Moreover, self-organization helps the farmers to understand agricultural risks and increase their adaptive capacity in times of extreme weather events. Accordingly, this paper investigate the impact of drought on rice production and farmers’ income, analyze the …