Agricultural Producers’ Views of Climate Change in the Canadian Prairies: Implications for Adaptation and Environmental Practices

Fletcher, Amber J.; Hurlbert, Margot; Hage, H. Sam; Sauchyn, David J.

doi:10.1080/08941920.2020.1823541

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“…This phrasing may have elicited a more overall positive response than if we had used "climate change" (Schuldt et al, 2017). Our language of "changing weather patterns" is consistent with the language that farmers use to discuss "climate change" (Doll et al, 2017;Houser, 2018;Fletcher et al, 2020).…”

Section: Questionnaire Terminology About Climate Changesupporting

confidence: 58%

“…Smaller qualitative inquiries such as this one can then inform larger confirmatory approaches to linking farmers' views of climate impacts to their perspectives on mitigation and adaptation measures (Arbuckle et al, 2013a;Liu et al, 2014). For the purposes of our inquiry, this set of responses allowed the analysis to begin by specifying some environmental factors that might inform farmers' views of adaptive and mitigative practices in this region (Clarke, 2013;Mase et al, 2017;Schewe and Stuart, 2017;Gardezi and Arbuckle, 2018;Fletcher et al, 2020).…”

Section: Salience Of Climate Change In Farmers' Qualitative Responsesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In response to these risks, farmers can pursue adaptation strategies that include both practices and operational-level shifts that reduce vulnerability to climate change (Smit and Skinner, 2002;Howden et al, 2007). Given the important role farmers play in driving adaptation of agricultural systems (Ostrom, 2014;Jurt et al, 2015), researchers are increasingly focusing on US farmers' adaptation decision making, revealing that a variety of factors shape farmers' use of adaptation strategies and views of climate change risks (Arbuckle et al, 2013a;Schattman et al, 2016;Roesch-McNally et al, 2018;Houser and Stuart, 2019;Fletcher et al, 2020;Yoder et al, 2021).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A variety of factors shape farmers' views as they face the rising effects of climate change and consider a range of adaptation strategies to build the resilience of their farming systems. We examine a set of related questions to explore farmers' perspectives on risks and potential shifts to their operations: (1) Relative to other environmental factors, how salient of a challenge is climate change and climate-related impacts to farmers? (2) Do farmers intend to adapt to climate impacts generally?, and (3) What factors shape their use of a specific and underexplored adaptive response—farm product diversification? The data come from a survey of 179 operators within a 30-county region of Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The region spans various rural-urban gradients. Respondents generally represent smaller operations [median of 80 acres (32 hectares)]. Because our selection methods aimed to over-sample from food-producing farms, 60% of respondents produced some type of food or value-added product, and 40% produced only commodity feedstocks and biofuels. Although the group as a whole indicated only “somewhat” of a concern about changing weather patterns, and half did not anticipate adapting their farming practices to climate change, farmers' responses to a write-in question denoted regional climate effects as challenges to their farms. Analysis of subgroups among the respondents, according to their views of climate change, adaptation, and further diversifying their agricultural products, distinguished farmers' family considerations, and gender. Methods to elicit subgroups included correlation, regression, cluster analysis, and an examination of the many respondents (29%) who indicated uncertainty about adapting practices. Women, who participated in 29% of responses, indicated more concern with changing weather patterns and more openness to adapting farming practices compared to men. Farmers with the most family relationships to consider, and those with the greatest aspirations to employ descendants, were the most receptive to adapting their farming practices. This was the case even when respondents' concern over climate change was low. Results point to the importance of family relationships as a factor in farmers' openness to implementing adaptive and potentially mitigative actions.

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Section: Questionnaire Terminology About Climate Changesupporting

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Section: Salience Of Climate Change In Farmers' Qualitative Responsesmentioning

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“…Agricultural production is highly dependent on land availability and weather conditions. The spatiotemporal variability of temperature and precipitation with landforms and soil types are the most important factors for determining the suitability and the yield of specific crops [9,10].…”

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Remotely Sensed Agroclimatic Classification and Zoning in Water-Limited Mediterranean Areas towards Sustainable Agriculture

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Agroclimatic classification identifies zones for efficient use of natural resources leading to optimal and non-optimal crop production. The aim of this paper is the development of a methodology to determine sustainable agricultural zones in three Mediterranean study areas, namely, “La Mancha Oriental” in Spain, “Sidi Bouzid” in Tunisia, and “Bekaa” valley in Lebanon. To achieve this, time series analysis with advanced geoinformatic techniques is applied. The agroclimatic classification methodology is based on three-stages: first, the microclimate features of the region are considered using aridity and vegetation health indices leading to water-limited growth environment (WLGE) zones based on water availability; second, landform features and soil types are associated with WLGE zones to identify non-crop-specific agroclimatic zones (NCSAZ); finally, specific restricted crop parameters are combined with NCSAZ to create the suitability zones. The results are promising as compared with the current crop production systems of the three areas under investigation. Due to climate change, the results indicate that these arid or semi-arid regions are also faced with insufficient amounts of precipitation for supporting rainfed annual crops. Finally, the proposed methodology reveals that the employment and use of remote sensing data and methods could be a significant tool for quickly creating detailed, and up to date agroclimatic zones.

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“…Laforge, Corkal, and Cosbey 2021;Sauchyn, Diaz, and Kulshreshtha 2010;Sauchyn, Davidson, Harney 20 and Johnston 2020). Yet taking 'climate action' is typically a controversial subject among Prairie farmers (Davidson et al 2019;Fletcher et al 2021). A survey from 2023 showed that 83% of farmers disagree with a recent federal fertilizer emission reduction target (Briere 2023).…”

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Trust, Risk, and Dissonance: Prairie Agriculture and Canada’s Environmental Farm Plan

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In the wake of combined economic and ecological pressure, Prairie farmers and the Canadian ministries responsible for agriculture are pressed to instigate sustainable agricultural development. However, Canada’s central agri-environmental program, the Environmental Farm Planning program (EFP), faces low uptake in the Prairie region. In this thesis, I explore the nature of the dissonance between the EFP and Prairie farmers to understand why participation is so low, the issues embedded in the EFP, and how to develop better agri-environmental policy for the Prairie region. I employ multiple methods, including survey, discourse, and institutional analyses, to make sense of the dissonance. Survey analysis is used to explore the social psychology of risk and characterize participant’s knowledge, risk perceptions, and trust regarding environmental action. Next, I employ discourse analysis to examine taken-for-granted notions embedded in how interviewees articulate their relationship to themselves, society, the environment, and the state. Finally, I utilize an institutional analysis to look at the mechanisms and values built into the EFP and the Prairie context and theorize how these institutional factors affect the EFP dissonance. Using the process of triangulation, I mix my methods to conclude that risk perceptions, economic constraints, and governmental trust are at the core of the EFP dissonance.

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Agricultural Producers’ Views of Climate Change in the Canadian Prairies: Implications for Adaptation and Environmental Practices

Cited by 5 publications

References 49 publications

Product Diversification, Adaptive Management, and Climate Change: Farming and Family in the U.S. Corn Belt

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Remotely Sensed Agroclimatic Classification and Zoning in Water-Limited Mediterranean Areas towards Sustainable Agriculture

Trust, Risk, and Dissonance: Prairie Agriculture and Canada’s Environmental Farm Plan

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