ABSTRACT

Providing climate information services to farmers is expected to optimise agricultural outputs amidst increasing climate uncertainty. Consequently, Indonesian governmental and extra-governmental actors provide climate services with the goal of improving productivity and increasing national food security. Existing research about climate-smart agriculture generally, and climate services in particular, presents these projects as largely technical or anti-political endeavours. Here, we analyse how rice farmers, collectively and individually, engage with climate services. We find that farmers ‘play’ with and between the climate service projects, manipulating them in order to subsidise their livelihoods and assert their individual and collective political power across scales.

摘要

在气候不确定性增加的情况下，向农民提供气候信息服务有望优化农业产出。因此，印度尼西亚政府和政府外行为者提供气候服务，以提高生产力和加强国家粮食安全。现有的关于气候智能型农业的研究，特别是气候服务，将这些项目描述为主要是技术或反政治的努力。在这里，我们分析了稻农如何集体和个人参与气候服务。我们发现农民在气候服务项目中和在它们之间“玩耍”，操纵它们以补贴他们的生计，并在各个层面上维护他们个人和集体的政治权力。