Research Article Assessment of Status of Climate Change and Determinants of People’s Awareness to Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Case of Sarlahi District, Nepal Sandhya Adhikari , 1 Sara Rawal , 2 and Sandesh Thapa 2 1 Institute of Agriculture and Animal Science, Paklihawa, Nepal 2 Gokuleshwor Agriculture and Animal Science College, Tribhuwan University, Baitadi, Nepal Correspondence should be addressed to Sandesh apa; sand.thapa.2056@gmail.com Received 1 December 2021; Accepted 12 April 2022; Published 29 April 2022 Academic Editor: Euripedes Silveira Junior Copyright © 2022 Sandhya Adhikari et al. is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. is study aims to analyze the status of climate change and determinants of people’s awareness of climate change in Sarlahi district, Nepal. A total of 102 respondents were selected randomly from the study area and interviewed using a semi- structured questionnaire from May 12, 2021, to May 23, 2021. Along with the determinants, this survey emphasized ﬁnding climate-smart alternatives favoring not only the population or sectors like agriculture but also the climate itself. e chi- square test was conducted to measure the relationship between the operational variables, which revealed that there was no signiﬁcant relationship between gender and knowledge of climate change, occupation and knowledge of climate change, land ownership and knowledge of climate change, guardian and knowledge of climate change, and decision role and knowledge on climate change. However, education, family size, and age had a signiﬁcant eﬀect on the knowledge of climate change. e binary logit model reported that age, years of schooling, training related to climate change, and involvement with cooperatives were found to have a signiﬁcant eﬀect on people’s awareness of climate change. us, improving people’s adoption of climate-smart agriculture in the education system of the study area and training the people in the study area should be a prime concern. 1. Background 1.1. Climate Change Scenario. e discussion of climate change has been ongoing for a very long time. Many of us are still unaware of the consequences of long-term climate change, and many have neglected it too. e perception of climate change not only aﬀects its mitigation but also gets impacted by the response from people. Diﬀerent studies have been employed to understand the factors that can fuel people’s perceptions, knowledge, and awareness about climate change [1, 2]. e farmers’ perceptions of climate change should focus on ongoing adaptation measures and decision-making at the policy level [1]. In the past few years, studies have revealed the relationships among ad- aptation, production, and revenue gained under climate change scenarios [3, 4]. e evidence for climate change is certain, and its impact is observed globally. e countries with low-income status or better known as developing nations are aﬀected more and are learning to adapt to such conditions, which is becoming a priority for human de- velopment [5, 6]. Farmers with small landholdings were found to be more aware and could respond to this stress, but due to several limiting factors, such as ﬁnancial status and lack of proper technology adoption, the response was null [7]. e knowledge of the climate is of strategic im- portance, which ensures the viability of production systems and deﬁnes strategies to deal with environmental chal- lenges [8, 9]. Farmers’ traditional knowledge also provides a signiﬁcant action to cope with ﬂuctuating climatic conditions [7, 9–15]. Hindawi Advances in Agriculture Volume 2022, Article ID 1556407, 9 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/1556407