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Development of a regional climate change perception index based on traditional knowledge base of small-marginal farmers

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Title Development of a regional climate change perception index based on traditional knowledge base of small-marginal farmers
 
Creator Bhattacharjee, S
Das, J K
Roy, S
Chakrabarti, S
 
Description 198-207
Due to global climatic change, the pronounced impact of temperature and precipitation variability on agriculture has
lately alarmed the top-up organizations to enable effective adaptation and mitigation strategies for small-marginal farmers.
In contrast, despite being the main stakeholders of this sector, these farmers have always been neglected in the decisionmaking
process while planning for adaptation strategies to combat climate change impacts in agriculture. Practicing farmers
have a wide array of knowledge, both current and traditional, related to climate change impacts. This underutilized form of
the knowledge base in the form of observable environmental changes that they deal with while producing food on their
farms is a valuable resource for agricultural development. Their involvement in the decision-making process would be
crucial to better understand the adaptation strategies at a local scale. With this in mind, we proposed a regional index for
measuring the level of perception of farmers on climate change. The proposed index is based on 21 closed-ended statements,
which have been exhaustively selected from a set of 62 statements through judges' rating methodology. The final set of
statements has been checked for validity and reliability measures. These statements then have been put to pilot testing in a
non-sampled area comprising of small farmers (n= 40). Finally, the set of 21 statements was applied in the study area (three
selected districts in West Bengal) to estimate the perception score. The results indicate very high reliability among the
statements of the proposed climate change perception index of the farmers.
 
Date 2022-02-15T07:03:40Z
2022-02-15T07:03:40Z
2022-01
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1068 (Online); 0972-5938 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/59143
 
Language en
 
Relation Int. Cl.22: E04H 9/16, F16K 27/12, G01W 1/06, G04G 17/08
 
Publisher CSIR-NIScPR
 
Source IJTK Vol.21(1) [January 2022]