Perceiving to learn or learning to perceive? Understanding farmers' perceptions and adaptation to climate uncertainties

Perceptions of Present and Future Climate Change Impacts on Water Availability for Agricultural Systems in the Western Mediterranean Region

“…The changes in weather and climate that farmers perceive have the most direct effect on their production activities [22,23]. Research around the world reported and confirmed the assumption of how people use personal experience to detect their local climate changes, especially in agricultural production (e.g., [15,[24][25][26]). Perception is meant here as "the detection of information" ( [27] p. 224).…”

“…Moreover, an increasing number of studies in the last decade has emphasized the key features of adaptation in agriculture including how farmers perceive, experience, and believe in climate change and adaptation (e.g., [15][16][17][18]). An effective response to climate change requires an understanding of the perceptions of individuals [15,19] and the successful up-scaling of local adaptation into the international policy arena [20]. Failure to consider farmers' perceptions and key drivers of climate impact beliefs as well as adaptation attitudes would lead to failure in the development of effective and sustainable adaptive strategies.…”

“…Research on adaptation of agricultural systems to climate change has mainly focused on weather patterns and extreme events [9] as well as the importance of projected climate change scenarios [10], future impacts of climate change and response strategies [11,12], and policy and institutional frameworks to improve adaptations [13,14]. Moreover, an increasing number of studies in the last decade has emphasized the key features of adaptation in agriculture including how farmers perceive, experience, and believe in climate change and adaptation (e.g., [15][16][17][18]). An effective response to climate change requires an understanding of the perceptions of individuals [15,19] and the successful up-scaling of local adaptation into the international policy arena [20].…”

Re-Staging La Rasgioni: Lessons Learned from Transforming a Traditional Form of Conflict Resolution to Engage Stakeholders in Agricultural Water Governance

“…A participatory action research process started in 2008 [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] and involved interdisciplinary teams composed of agronomists, economists, animal scientists, meteorologists, and social scientists. This research pathway was able to consolidate a long-term trust relationship between researchers and local stakeholders [38][39][40][41][42] and revealed asymmetries between the effective cooperation among livestock farmers and the fragmentation of competences and actions among the public institutional actors in the same catchment. Moreover, following the implementation of the Nitrate Directive, the initial tension between farmers and fishermen came to also include policy-makers in different positions in the governance system.…”

Global Water Governance and Climate Change: Identifying Innovative Arrangements for Adaptive Transformation

“…For the Tunisian and Italian case studies, a trans-disciplinary approach that incorporates local knowledges and scientific perspectives has been a key component both for water-and climate-related issues [9,81]. This trans-disciplinarity was the original intent of the projects.…”