000161705 001__ 161705 000161705 005__ 20251017144606.0 000161705 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.1080/1828051X.2025.2515264 000161705 0248_ $$2sideral$$a144373 000161705 037__ $$aART-2025-144373 000161705 041__ $$aeng 000161705 100__ $$aMuñoz-Ulecia, Enrique 000161705 245__ $$aThe importance of the messenger in climate change communication to farmers 000161705 260__ $$c2025 000161705 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000161705 5203_ $$aAgriculture 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. We conducted a survey with 167 livestock farmers across Spain, gathering data about their perceptions on climate change severity and origin, and to what extent its importance has been exaggerated. We also analysed farmers’ trust in different information sources, including farmers associations (i.e. breed associations, farmer organisations and cooperatives), agricultural organisations, technical publications, veterinarians, agricultural firms, government agencies, scientists, environmentalists, animal activists, and the media. Our results show that farmers believe climate change exists but a high proportion are sceptical about its origin and severity. Farmers’ trust in information sources influences their perception of climate change. Farmers who trust public institutions, environmentalists, animal activists, and the media are more likely to view climate change as human-driven and perceive its impacts as severe, rejecting claims of exaggeration. In contrast, those who trust veterinarians, cooperatives, agricultural firms, and farmer organisations tend to see climate change as a hybrid human-natural process and believe its impacts are overstated. The results highlight the need to improve the science-policy-farmers dialogue to make farmers more aware of the potential consequences of climate change on farming and trigger adaptation. 000161705 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/A25-23R$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/A26-23R$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/INIA/RTA2015-00035$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EUR/LIFE19 NAT-IT-000848$$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICIN PCI2019–103533 000161705 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby-nc$$uhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.es 000161705 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000161705 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-3237-9751$$aBernués, Alberto 000161705 700__ $$aCarabaño, María Jesús 000161705 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-1796-4223$$aJoy, Margalida 000161705 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0002-2087-961X$$aMartín-Collado, Daniel 000161705 773__ $$g24, 1 (2025), 1336-1344$$pItal. J. Anim. Sci.$$tItalian Journal of Animal Science$$x1594-4077 000161705 8564_ $$s1630174$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/161705/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000161705 8564_ $$s1025021$$uhttps://zaguan.unizar.es/record/161705/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000161705 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:161705$$particulos$$pdriver 000161705 951__ $$a2025-10-17-14:15:22 000161705 980__ $$aARTICLE