Climate Change Perceptions and Resilience Readiness among Agricultural Practitioners in Greece: Evidence from a National Survey Dataset

The current works aims to identify the perspectives of agricultural sector practitioners on climate risk and their response strategies for improving climate resilience, in Greece, using a recently published nationally representative survey data (Serafeim et al. in 2025).Based on the survey, almost every responder related to the agricultural sector (i.e. farmers), believes in the existence of climate crisis, while 84,2% of them has experienced environmental changes in their region, including extreme phenomena like droughts, rising temperatures, forest fires, and flooding, all of which pose a significant threat to agricultural production in Greece. Despite this notably high level of awareness the responders highlighted a low level of preparedness, since only 2.6% of the agricultural related group has attended training on either climate change or disaster preparedness. However, there is a high level of adaptive readiness, given that 71.1% showed a strong willingness to attend such training sessions.These results underscore the need for specific training and adaptation policies based on local perceptions to enhance the resilience of the agricultural communities of the Mediterranean region. This can be done by capitalizing the use of national perception data to inform the development of an evidence-based climate change adaptation strategy to address the resilience gap in rural livelihoods.ReferencesSerafeim, A. V., Perdios, A., Emmanouil, S., Kritidou, E., Ntona, M. M., Aspioti, A., Georgaki, M. N., Papailiopoulou, M. and Kanellaki, M.V. (2025). National survey-based investigation of climate risk perceptions and adaptation readiness in Greece [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.t1g1jwtg1.