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*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable agriculture and land management*

Dear Subscribers,

Please see attached a paper by Kieran Findlater et al. on Six languages for
a risky climate: How farmers react to weather and climate change.

Thank you Kieran for sharing.

Amir Kassam

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*Conservation Agriculture is based on the practical application of three
interlinked principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil
disturbance (no-till seeding/planting and no-till weeding);  (ii) permanent
maintenance of soil much cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops); and
(iii) diversification of cropping system (rotations and/or sequences and/or
associations involving annuals and perennials including legumes), along
with other complementary good agricultural practices (more at: *
www.fao.org/ag/ca)

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From: Kieran Findlater <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, May 23, 2018 at 4:00 PM
Subject: New article -- Six languages for a risky climate: How farmers
react to weather and climate change
To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>


Dear Amir,

I think this one slipped through the cracks. Would you please share it with
the CA-CoP list?

Thanks!
Kieran

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Dear Colleagues,

Please find below a link to our new paper in *Climatic Change* seeking to
understand the various cognitive frames that farmers use in perceiving and
responding to weather and climate risks.

This paper may be freely accessed at https://rdcu.be/N9V3, while the
publisher's article page (including PDF) is linked below.

We use a novel methodology to reveal patterns in decision-making by
commercial grain farmers in South Africa, whose farming enterprises closely
resemble those in North America, Europe and Australia. We show that
farmers’ framing of weather and climate risks strongly predicts their
adoption of conservation agriculture (CA)—climate-resilient best practices
that reduce shorter-term financial and weather risks and longer-term
agronomic risks. These farmers describe weather and climate risks using six
exhaustive and mutually exclusive languages: agricultural, cognitive,
economic, emotional, political, and survival. The framing of weather in
terms of farm survival risks notably impedes adaptations that are likely to
improve such survival in the longer term. But this survival framing is not
necessarily indicative of farmers’ current economic circumstances. It
represents a consequential mindset rather than a financial state and it may
go undetected in more conventional studies relying on direct survey or
interview questions.

Findlater KM, Satterfield T, Kandlikar M, Donner SDD (2018). Six languages
for a risky climate: How farmers react to weather and climate change. *Climatic
Change*. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2217-z

*Keywords:*  Climate change adaptation; Climate resilience; Decision
making; Risk management; Mental models; Conservation Agriculture

Kind regards,
Kieran

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*Kieran M. Findlater, PhD*

Postdoctoral Fellow
Social-Ecological Systems Research Group
<http://ses.forestry.ubc.ca/people/postdoctoral-fellows/>
University of British Columbia  |  Vancouver, Canada

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<https://twitter.com/FindlaterKM>

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