Ghobadi Aliabadi, S., Agahi, H., Farhadian, H. (2022). Farmers' Perceptions of Climate Change Risk: Comparing the Accuracy of Farmers’ Perceptions with Meteorological Data in Kermanshah Township. , 24(4), 811-823.
S. Ghobadi Aliabadi; H. Agahi; H. Farhadian. "Farmers' Perceptions of Climate Change Risk: Comparing the Accuracy of Farmers’ Perceptions with Meteorological Data in Kermanshah Township". , 24, 4, 2022, 811-823.
Ghobadi Aliabadi, S., Agahi, H., Farhadian, H. (2022). 'Farmers' Perceptions of Climate Change Risk: Comparing the Accuracy of Farmers’ Perceptions with Meteorological Data in Kermanshah Township', , 24(4), pp. 811-823.
Ghobadi Aliabadi, S., Agahi, H., Farhadian, H. Farmers' Perceptions of Climate Change Risk: Comparing the Accuracy of Farmers’ Perceptions with Meteorological Data in Kermanshah Township. , 2022; 24(4): 811-823.

Farmers' Perceptions of Climate Change Risk: Comparing the Accuracy of Farmers’ Perceptions with Meteorological Data in Kermanshah Township

Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology
Article 5, Volume 24, Issue 4, 2022, Pages 811-823    PDF (928.21 K)
Document Type: Original Research
Authors
S. Ghobadi Aliabadi1; H. Agahi* 1; H. Farhadian2
1Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Razi University, Kermanshah, Islamic Republic of Iran.
2Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Faculty of Agriculture, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran.
Abstract
Farmers’ perceptions of climate change risk is critically important if they plan to implement appropriate adaptation measures in their farming. This research was conducted to evaluate the accuracy of farmers’ perceptions of climate variability and assess the factors influencing it. To evaluate the accuracy of farmers’ perceptions, this study also explored the pattern and trend of climate variability in the study area, using historical meteorological data analysis. Research sample included 217 farmers of Kermanshah Township, who were selected using multistage sampling technique. The accuracy of the farmers’ perceived patterns of local climatic changes was appraised based on graphical analyses of meteorological records during 1970 to 2018. Then, the accuracy of farmers’ perceptions were categorized. Findings showed that the perceptions of 58.06%. of farmers were consistent with the meteorological data, and there was a need to improve the accuracy of farmers’ perceptions of climate variability. Sharing specific local weather information with the community would be one possible way of solving this issue. Also, this study investigated the factors influencing farmers’ perceptions of climate change risk. The results showed that knowledge, personal emotions, social norms, and personal experience collectively accounted for 49.3% of the farmers’ perceptions of climate change risk variance.
Keywords
Climate variability; Kermanshah Township; Risk Perception
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