Mapping Potential Area of Sustainable Food Agriculture Area in Somba Opu Sub-District, Gowa Regency

Population growth in Indonesia which is increasing causes the need for land to be used as a residential space or housing space to increse. One of the regions in Indonesia that experienced a land cover change of paddy fields into settlements is Somba Opu Sub-District, Gowa Regency. Somba Opu Sub-District is directly adjacent to Makassar City in the North. An effort to overcome changes in agricultural land to non-agriculture land is by making policy regarding the Sustainable Food Agriculture Land. The definition of the Land of Sustainable Food Agriculture is a field of agricultural land that is determined to be protected and developed consistently in order to produce staple food for independence, resilience, and national food sovereignty. The methods used in this study are observation, interviews using questionnaires, and studying the documentations. The criteria of the respondents in this study were paddy field farmers. In determining the number of respondents, this study uses the Slovin formula. The criteria for Sustainable Food Farming are based on Regulation of Ministery of Agriculture No. 7 of 2012. The result shows that Somba Opu Sub-District has an area of potential for Sustainable Food Agricultural Land covering an area of 214 ha and Sustainable Food Agricultural Reserves Land covering an area of 854 ha.