ABSTRACT

The common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) provides numerous benefits for the rural poor. Heat tolerant varieties require rapid adoption of new seeds to replace traditional varieties. However, a number of institutional and household factors, predominantly lack of extension and information, has led to low uptake despite decades of intervention. We focus on growers in Colombia and apply a bespoke questionnaire to 566 households to understand their awareness, experiences and concern towards climatic change. We classify these into four groups of 'interpretive communities'. Whilst there is a small portion of the sample who claim to be unaffected and unconcerned towards climate change, the remainder identify varying degrees of experience with climatic events. However, this does not directly translate into similar levels of concern towards the future impact of climate change. A multinomial logistic regression finds that concern is driven by a number of factors, but is highest in those farmers who specialize their production. Altitude and distance to markets also appear to have some effect in shaping perceptions of our classes. We conclude that consideration of these interpretative communities offers more information to frame messages and focusing of effort on those cohorts would lead to more likelihood of change.

摘要

普通豆 ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) 为农村贫困人口提供了许多好处。耐热品种需要快速采用新种子来替代传统品种。然而，尽管进行了数十年的干预，但一些制度和家庭因素，主要是缺乏推广和信息，导致吸收率低。我们专注于哥伦比亚的种植者，并向 566 户家庭应用定制问卷，以了解他们对气候变化的认识、经历和关注。我们将它们分为四组“解释性社区”。虽然有一小部分样本声称对气候变化没有影响和不关心，但其余的则确定了不同程度的气候事件经验。然而，这并没有直接转化为对气候变化未来影响的类似关注程度。多项逻辑回归发现，这种担忧是由许多因素驱动的，但在那些专业生产的农民中最为严重。高度和与市场的距离似乎也对塑造我们阶级的看法有一定的影响。我们得出结论，对这些解释性社区的考虑为构建信息提供了更多信息，并且将精力集中在这些群体上将导致改变的可能性更大。