Sustainability of rice farming based on eco-farming to face food security and climate change: Case study in Jambi Province, Indonesia

The objectif of this study was to analyze index and sustainability status of rice farming carried out by farmers in Jambi Province, Indonesia. The analysis used modification of Rapfish method by using multidimensional scaling (MDS) technic [1]. The analysis of sustainability of rice farming in multidimensional revealed that rice farming carried out by farmers is less sustainable, with the sustainability index is 41.96. Indexs to the dimensions of ecological, economic, socio-cultural and technological sustainability are 48.25: 40.83: 40.97, and 16.46 respectively. This indexs indicate that ecological, economic, and socio-cultural dimensional were less sustainable, and index to the dimensions of technological was not sustainable. According to attribute leveraging analysis shows that there are some aributes as a leverage factor, ie: rice productivity, the usage of organic fertilizers, organic pesticides, and land capability class (for the ecological dimension); the percentage of income to total revenue, the percentage of farmers who live below the poverty line, farmer exchange, government subsidies, availability production facilities, comparative advantage, and the development of rice prices (economic dimension); farmers motivation, the average age of farmers, the adoption rate of technology, the time required for rice farming, rice consumption growth and government policy (socio-cultural dimensions); post-harvest technology, the availability of improved seed, the amount of rice milling, and how to eradicate the pest management (technological dimension). (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.