Institutionalizing Science Field Shops: Developing Response Farming to Climate Change
Case Study Science Field Shops in Indonesia
Science Field Shops (SFSs) in Indonesia promote farmers’ agrometeorological learning enabling them to adapt their farming activities to cope with increasing climate variability. Seven climate services forming the core of SFSs are based on transdisciplinary collaboration between farmers and scientists.
Farmers from all over the world have reported that both the timing of rainy seasons and rain patterns are changing. These perceptions of change are striking in that they are geographically widespread, and because the changes are described in remarkably consistent terms (Jennings and Magrath, 2009). Consequences of climate change are global warming, increasing climate variability, more frequent and more severe weather events affecting people’s livelihood, particularly in vulnerable areas, such as tropical Asia. Increasing temperatures have been emerging together with a shift in seasonal patterns, which may have severe consequences for human health, agricultural and ecosystem productivity.
