Can rural climate services meet context-specific needs, and still be scalable? Experience from Rwanda
Investment in national climate services must address trade-offs between meeting context-specific farmer needs and providing cost-effective services at scale. In the context of an ongoing national-scale agricultural climate service initiative in Rwanda, we discuss approaches used to address five s...
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| Formato: | Conference Proceedings |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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University of Cape Town
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100199 |
| Sumario: | Investment in national climate services must address trade-offs between meeting context-specific
farmer needs and providing cost-effective services at scale. In the context of an ongoing
national-scale agricultural climate service initiative in Rwanda, we discuss approaches used to
address five scaling challenges (capacity constraints of farmers, communication intermediaries,
climate information providers, data gaps, and co-production with farmers) and the resulting
lessons. |
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