Dampak Konversi Lahan Pertanian Bagi Taraf Hidup Petani di Kelurahan Landasan Ulin Barat Kecamatan Liang Anggang Kota Banjarbaru

The study is aimed to describe the condition of farmers livelihood before andafter land conversion as well as knowing its socio-economic impact. It is aqualitative study, where respondents were purposively selected by usingsnowball sampling. The results show that the change of farmers\u27 incomebefore and after land conversion is varied – increase, decrease or no change.Housing and assets ownership has not changed much both before and afterthe conversion. Health condition is also relatively stable. Land conversion hassocial and economic impacts as farmers should shift and diversificate theirlivelihoods on agriculture and non-agriculture sector. The change onhousehold income is depending on the type of new business established.Land conversion also has environmental effect since land conversion forresidential area is followed by river backfill which create water flowdisturbance