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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Winarto, Yunita T.; Prahara, Hestu; Anantasari, Esti; Kristiyanto |
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Conference:
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Sustaining Commons: Sustaining Our Future, the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons |
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Location:
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Hyderabad, India |
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Conf. Date:
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January 10-14 |
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Date:
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2011 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/7136
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Sector:
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General & Multiple Resources |
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Region:
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Middle East & South Asia |
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Subject(s):
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collaboration--research
knowledge
collective action
vulnerability
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Abstract:
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"Changes in climate provides new unexpected and uncertain phenomena for farmers
to adapt their farming strategies. Relying on past experience only would not help
farmers to anticipate the future climate situation. Observation on the present
problems of farming strategies in relation to changes in weather condition needs to
be improved significantly, so as to enable them to develop their farming strategies
better and to reinterprete their cosmologies. The cases from Indonesia (Yogyakarta
and West Java) reveal the advantages the farmers gained by enriching their exisiting
knowledge through detailed daily rainfall measurement and agroecosystem
observation. Farmers, however, faced some constraints in organizing their activities
through collection action in carrying out the observation and addressing vulnerability
based on water management and availability as common pool resources. The paper
examines the process of facilitating farmers to be rainfall-observers in their own
fields, its benefits to their knowledge and practical advancement, as well as the
constraints the farmers and researchers had in building up a collaborative research
and addressing farmers’ vulnerability in a changing climate."
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