Maria Jesus Carabaño

Abstract Agriculture needs to mitigate its impacts and adapt to new environmental conditions. To this end, communicating climate change to farmers is essential but remains a challenge, since many stakeholders (e.g. public administration, sectoral stakeholders, environmentalists) engage with farmers, conveying diverse messages about climate change and the role of agriculture. Here we aim to analyse farmers’ perceptions of climate change and how these relate to their trust in different stakeholders.

1 INTRODUCTION The dairy sector, a thriving industry generating billions in revenue and supporting millions of jobs worldwide, plays a crucial role in the global food system, providing essential nutrients to a growing population (Belzen, 2016). However, global warming poses a growing menace to this essential activity. Environmental challenges, particularly elevated temperatures, are leading to increasingly frequent and severe episodes of heat stress (HS).

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