Localising Climate Knowledge & Strategies: Perspectives of Small and Marginal Women Farmers from Gujarat

This report documents how small and marginal women farmers in Gujarat, India, perceive, articulate, and respond to climate change. Drawing on focus group discussions, indepth interviews, and key informant interviews across two agro-climatic zones — coastal Bhavnagar and tribal Dahod and Panchmahal — the research centres women's voices, ecological knowledge, and adaptive strategies as its primary source of evidence. The study argues that women farmers are not passive victims of climate change but active knowledge-holders and resilience-builders whose expertise must be placed at the centre of climate policy and agricultural programming.