Climate change as a global phenomenon generates socio-environmental dynamics at the local level that affect different groups and in particular in rural areas, small farmers. The purpose of this article is to determine the level of perception about climate change and how it influences the response capacity of farmers in an inter-Andean valley of the Ecuadorian Sierra. To do this, surveys were conducted aimed at farmers in order to understand how the population visualizes changes in time over temperature and precipitation, and in turn, how the alteration of these variables affects their agricultural production. Additionally, the empirical perception of farmers is compared with climate projections to determine correlations and to establish adaptation measures; Structural and non-structural. Farmers are a group that in particular understands better the changes that have taken place in the cl...