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limited engagement and meaningful inclusion with farmer communities in collaboratively developing programme adaptation activities in early design is still lacking
in practice. When coupled with limited incorporation of farmer innovation, local
knowledge and agency as part of the social processes key to long-term adaptation,
overall, little impact or adaptive capacity is being fostered in the long-term in these
cases of national adaptation activities.
Keywords Climate change adaptation · UNFCCC · Development programming ·
Village climate activities
Introduction
Internationally, limited attention has been given to the way climate finance within
internationally framed climate adaptation programming is translated into interventions explicitly directed at instilling local community climate resilience and adaptive
capacity (Taylor 2015). Less attention has been given to incorporating local and
indigenous knowledge into formal climate change adaptation strategies, despite the
interlinkages of integrating local and indigenous knowledge into science (Hiwasaki
et al. 2014). Given that the factors that determine vulnerability tend to be contextspecific, designing adaptation interventions to address such factors requires a locally
tailored knowledge base (Few et al. 2007). However, much of this type of knowledge is not always in a format that is easily utilised (Schmuck-Widmann 2001) to
climate change adaptation planners and planning processes. Particularly, as contrasts
are often drawn between scientific epistemologies of climate change and those
of local perspectives, regardless of a vast divergence of views (Bohensky et al. 2016).
Capacity building remains a problem to which little attention has been paid so far
in Indonesia, despite the importance of building local capacities (Yoseph-Paulus
and Hindmarsh 2018). Geographically, research into the role and relevance of local
context-specific knowledge and processes, both in understanding local applications
of climate change and in contributing to adaptation strategies, have largely taken place
in the Arctic and the Pacific (e.g. see Armitage et al. 2011; Alexander et al. 2011;
Berkes et al. 2007; Cruickshank 2001, 2005; Krupnik and Ray 2007; Kuruppu 2009;
Lefale 2010; McNamara and Prasad 2013; Weatherhead et al. 2010). Insufficient
attention has been paid to the experiences of local farmers in the rendering of adaptation interventions in Indonesia, that are positioned within international development
assistance and national commitments, to be translated into the practices of rural
village communities in order to enhance climate resilience and adaptive capacity.
This chapter, therefore, analyses the role of the conceptual underpinnings articulated
into the programming of adaptation activities implemented at the local village levels
in two comparative cases of programme implementation under national adaptation
planning in Indonesia. The chapter describes the conceptual basis informing the
programmatic approach to adaptation activities through which international climate
frameworks are translated into national development planning for integration into
S. Turner-Walker et al.
limited engagement and meaningful inclusion with farmer communities in collaboratively developing programme adaptation activities in early design is still lacking
in practice. When coupled with limited incorporation of farmer innovation, local
knowledge and agency as part of the social processes key to long-term adaptation,
overall, little impact or adaptive capacity is being fostered in the long-term in these
cases of national adaptation activities.
Keywords Climate change adaptation · UNFCCC · Development programming ·
Village climate activities
Introduction
Internationally, limited attention has been given to the way climate finance within
internationally framed climate adaptation programming is translated into interventions explicitly directed at instilling local community climate resilience and adaptive
capacity (Taylor 2015). Less attention has been given to incorporating local and
indigenous knowledge into formal climate change adaptation strategies, despite the
interlinkages of integrating local and indigenous knowledge into science (Hiwasaki
et al. 2014). Given that the factors that determine vulnerability tend to be contextspecific, designing adaptation interventions to address such factors requires a locally
tailored knowledge base (Few et al. 2007). However, much of this type of knowledge is not always in a format that is easily utilised (Schmuck-Widmann 2001) to
climate change adaptation planners and planning processes. Particularly, as contrasts
are often drawn between scientific epistemologies of climate change and those
of local perspectives, regardless of a vast divergence of views (Bohensky et al. 2016).
Capacity building remains a problem to which little attention has been paid so far
in Indonesia, despite the importance of building local capacities (Yoseph-Paulus
and Hindmarsh 2018). Geographically, research into the role and relevance of local
context-specific knowledge and processes, both in understanding local applications
of climate change and in contributing to adaptation strategies, have largely taken place
in the Arctic and the Pacific (e.g. see Armitage et al. 2011; Alexander et al. 2011;
Berkes et al. 2007; Cruickshank 2001, 2005; Krupnik and Ray 2007; Kuruppu 2009;
Lefale 2010; McNamara and Prasad 2013; Weatherhead et al. 2010). Insufficient
attention has been paid to the experiences of local farmers in the rendering of adaptation interventions in Indonesia, that are positioned within international development
assistance and national commitments, to be translated into the practices of rural
village communities in order to enhance climate resilience and adaptive capacity.
This chapter, therefore, analyses the role of the conceptual underpinnings articulated
into the programming of adaptation activities implemented at the local village levels
in two comparative cases of programme implementation under national adaptation
planning in Indonesia. The chapter describes the conceptual basis informing the
programmatic approach to adaptation activities through which international climate
frameworks are translated into national development planning for integration into