Correlation Between Knowledge of The Farmers - The Alumni of Climate Field School at Kabupaten Bogor and Adaption to Climate Change

Abstract

This study aims to find out the relationship between knowledge of the farmers, the alumni of Climate Field School at Kabupaten Bogor and adaptation to climate change. A quantitative research method with a survey approach was used in this study. The study is population research in which the overall respondents were taken from the population. The respondents are the farmers who are the alumni of Climate Field School (CFS) that totaled 25 persons, living in 4 Kecamatan (districts): Kecamatan Leuwiliang as many as 10 persons, Kecamatan Leuwisadeng six persons, Kecamatan Rumpin as many as four persons, and Kecamatan Nanggung totaled five persons. Data collection technique used is a closed questionnaire comprising 25 questions for X variable and 15 questions for Y variable. Based on the result of the study, it shows that the data with medium category was obtained from the medium knowledge. In addition, based on the result of correlation test, it took rcount was as many as 0.486 and table was as many as 0.396, which presented that there is a strong relationship between the knowledge of the farmers who are the alumni of Climate Field School and the adaptation to climate change. So, the result of the study shows that after following Climate Field School the farmers master the knowledge and practice the adaptation to climate change in farming activity.