Strengthening climate services for the food security sector
The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) enables vulnerable sectors and populations to better manage climate variability and adapt to climate change. How? By developing and incorporating science-based climate information into planning, policy and practice. The GFCS places the decision contex...
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| author | Hansen, James Fara, Katiuscia Milliken, Kathryn Boyce, Clement Chang’a, Ladislaus Allis, Erica |
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| description | The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) enables vulnerable sectors and populations to better manage climate variability and adapt to climate change. How? By developing and incorporating science-based climate information into planning, policy and practice. The GFCS places the decision context and information needs of “users” at the centre of the design process. The development of such climate services alters the dynamic between the “user” and the “provider,” valuing each actor's knowledge and engaging them both in a co-production process. This approach challenges the conventional linear supply chain for weather and climate information, in which data are generated, information produced, a product designed, and handed over to the user for consumption, without a real understanding of whether this information is useful for decision-making.
In late 2013, with support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the GFCS embarked on a multi-agency1 proof of concept. The GFCS Adaptation Programme for Africa aimed to increase the resilience of those most vulnerable to the impacts of weather and climate-related hazards, through the development of more effective climate services in Tanzania and Malawi. It focused in particular on the sectors that address food security, health and disaster risk reduction.
This article outlines the learning generated through the food security component of the project. The component was jointly led by the World Food Programme (WFP) and CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), with activities implemented with the Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA), Malawian Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services (DCCMS), and a range of national and local partners. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1002182019-03-08T14:33:00Z Strengthening climate services for the food security sector Hansen, James Fara, Katiuscia Milliken, Kathryn Boyce, Clement Chang’a, Ladislaus Allis, Erica climate change agriculture food security The Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS) enables vulnerable sectors and populations to better manage climate variability and adapt to climate change. How? By developing and incorporating science-based climate information into planning, policy and practice. The GFCS places the decision context and information needs of “users” at the centre of the design process. The development of such climate services alters the dynamic between the “user” and the “provider,” valuing each actor's knowledge and engaging them both in a co-production process. This approach challenges the conventional linear supply chain for weather and climate information, in which data are generated, information produced, a product designed, and handed over to the user for consumption, without a real understanding of whether this information is useful for decision-making. In late 2013, with support from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the GFCS embarked on a multi-agency1 proof of concept. The GFCS Adaptation Programme for Africa aimed to increase the resilience of those most vulnerable to the impacts of weather and climate-related hazards, through the development of more effective climate services in Tanzania and Malawi. It focused in particular on the sectors that address food security, health and disaster risk reduction. This article outlines the learning generated through the food security component of the project. The component was jointly led by the World Food Programme (WFP) and CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), with activities implemented with the Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA), Malawian Department of Climate Change and Meteorological Services (DCCMS), and a range of national and local partners. 2018-11-12 2019-03-08T14:33:00Z 2019-03-08T14:33:00Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100218 en Open Access Hansen J, Fara K, Milliken K, Boyce C, Chang’a L, Allis E. 2018. Strengthening climate services for the food security sector. WMO Bulletin 67(2):20-26. |
| spellingShingle | climate change agriculture food security Hansen, James Fara, Katiuscia Milliken, Kathryn Boyce, Clement Chang’a, Ladislaus Allis, Erica Strengthening climate services for the food security sector |
| title | Strengthening climate services for the food security sector |
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| title_short | Strengthening climate services for the food security sector |
| title_sort | strengthening climate services for the food security sector |
| topic | climate change agriculture food security |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100218 |
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