With current global climate change conditions, the urgency to provide agricultural knowledge on adaptation has risen. The dearth of climate change information is one amongst many agricultural production challenges faced by the majority of rural farming communities. This study aimed to identify smallholder farmers’ sources of climate change information and constraints to their coping and adaptation. Descriptive statistical tools, mean scores and the ‘problem confrontation index’ (PCI) were used to assess and describe the study’s findings. Analysis revealed that public extension services play a minute role in rural farmers’ climate change knowledge; they get their information elsewhere. The most critical constraint to climate change coping and adaptation in the study area was lack of access to agricultural extension services.

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南非东开普省 Amathole 区市小农适应气候变化的信息来源和制约因素

在当前的全球气候变化条件下，提供农业适应知识的紧迫性已经上升。气候变化信息的缺乏是大多数农村农业社区面临的众多农业生产挑战之一。本研究旨在确定小农的气候变化信息来源及其应对和适应的制约因素。描述性统计工具、平均分数和“问题对抗指数”(PCI) 用于评估和描述研究结果。分析表明，公共推广服务对农民气候变化知识的影响很小；他们从别处获取信息。研究区应对和适应气候变化的最关键制约因素是缺乏获得农业推广服务的机会。