Dear Colleagues,
Please find below a free link to our new paper in Climatic Change seeking to understand the various cognitive frames that farmers use in perceiving and responding to weather and climate risks.
This paper may be freely accessed at https://rdcu.be/N9V3, while the publisher's article page (including PDF) is linked below.
We use a novel methodology to reveal patterns in decision-making by commercial grain farmers in South Africa, whose farming enterprises closely resemble those in North America, Europe and Australia. We show that farmers’ framing of weather and climate risks strongly predicts their adoption of conservation agriculture (CA)—climate-resilient best practices that reduce shorter-term financial and weather risks and longer-term agronomic risks. These farmers describe weather and climate risks using six exhaustive and mutually exclusive languages: agricultural, cognitive, economic, emotional, political, and survival. The framing of weather in terms of farm survival risks notably impedes adaptations that are likely to improve such survival in the longer term. But this survival framing is not necessarily indicative of farmers’ current economic circumstances. It represents a consequential mindset rather than a financial state and it may go undetected in more conventional studies relying on direct survey or interview questions.
Findlater KM, Satterfield T, Kandlikar M, Donner SDD (2018). Six languages for a risky climate: How farmers react to weather and climate change. Climatic Change. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584
Keywords: Climate change adaptation; Climate resilience; Decision making; Risk management; Mental models; Conservation Agriculture
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