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Climate change is confusing Indonesian farmers |
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Written by Kees Stigter
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Monday, 14 January 2024 |
Kees Stigter, Yunita Winarto and a number of students were invited to make another visit on 23 December 2023 to a group of
farmers that had followed a government organized Farmer Field
School (FFS) on Climatic Change in Gunungkidul, Central Java, near Yogyakarta in a rain fed dry land area of
Indonesia.
From the discussion with the farmers the visitors concluded that not so
much was to be expected from the government apart from subsidizing and
organizing FFSs. For the time being not much can be expected from available
scientific products, in the form of services provided, as well. This was
illustrated with the available forecast products from BMG (Indonesian National
Weather Services) that also here, like in Indramayu, were of little help to
these farmers because of the local scale of much of the phenomena. Farmers must
build up their own new experience together.
Read full report of the field visit.
Resources on Climate Field Schools in Indonesia:
- Climate change is confusing Indonesian
farmers: a visit to another Climate Field School in Indonesia, that
of Gunungkidul near Yogyakarta - Report of a Field Visit, posted 7 January 2024
- Agrometeorology from Science to Extension: Assessment of Needs and Provision of Services - Paper presented on 26 October 2024 at the occasion of for the 50th
Anniversary of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS)
- An account of visiting those involved in
climate field schools in Indonesia - Report of a Field Visit, posted 7 May 2024
- Between success and expansion: farmer
field schools in north-east Bali - Posted on 2 October 2024
- News item of 18 October 2024
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