It is a collaborative action-research to establish a Climate Resource Centre (CRC) in Bidar District, recognising everydayness as a site for knowledge co-production. The CRC is a network platform (non-digital) for farmers, their families and allies, where experiences, practices and responses within agricultural practices are documented, disseminated and develop local research actions. The project seeks to inform climate adaptation, outreach and action at the hyper-local scale. We seek to decenter mainstream, ‘expert’-led understandings in climate adaptation research - centering the understandings, experiences, and priorities of Bidar’s farmers in response to the changing climate in the Dakkhani region. The Resource Centre will also provide 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