Climate Resource Centre (CRC) is a socio-technical platform for farmers, their families and allies, where experiences, practices and responses within agricultural practices are documented, disseminated and developed through local collaborative action research. CRC will centre local understandings, experiences, and priorities to shape how the effects of climate change in the Dakkhani region and South Canara are understood and responded to - it will seek to inform climate adaptation, outreach and action at the hyper-local scale. To do this our approach is to ‘infrastructuring’ a platform where everyday knowledge and intimate politics can be shared, actioned and interpreted. To wilfully move beyond the current imaginations of such programmes that typically focus on monitoring, maintenance and action toward ecosystems. CRC platform will seek to enable the undertaking of co-owned action in multiple micro-contexts and geographies. This is also important as we need to envision new ways of exchanging knowledge situated in cultural histories and lived experiences. The assumptions for the exchange of diverse knowledge practices embedded in a place have to be rediscovered and reinvented. It is an important step in decolonising research practices around Climate Change. As this effort moves forward, the ideas of “development” will be reimagined for farming communities.
The Resource Centre will also act as a platform where these practices are expanded upon and exchanged with others in the region - directing existing vocational knowledge as well as new community-led ideas towards understanding and addressing the effects of climate change. The project aims to recognise how everyday practices can:
- Inform how climate change is perceived
- Co-produce locally-led climate action
- Co-vision adaptation futures