Pola Konversi Lahan Dan Strategi Perlindungan Lahan Sawah Di Kota Sukabumi

. The assessment for protecting paddy fields by identifying land coversion pattern in Sukabumi city by qualitative and quantitative approach, it is indicated that paddy fields has decreased by 2.23 percent while developed-land has increased by 3.35 percent within 10 years (from 2002 to 2012). The landuse change was influenced by labor, farmers regeneration, and land tenure fragmentation. Physically, it was influenced by population density, the length of the road and slope. The strategies can be implemented to protect paddy fields in Sukabumi, namely: (1) by increasing the farmer's agribusiness capacity, (2) formulating the action plan for regenerating young farmers, (3) by controlling the permission regarded to land coversion, and (4) Sukabumi municipal city should buys the productive paddy fields. For further, it seems that municipal city government should conduct an assessment on studying the agropolis and agroedutourism concept in Sukabumi