Piloting an ICT-based App for providing weather forecasts, agroadvisory and market information to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia
Agriculture is the core sector of the Ethiopian economy (Bekabil 2014). However, smallholder farmers that dominate the sector practice rain-fed mixed farming by using unimproved practices leading to low agricultural productivity (Welteji 2018). Ethiopian agriculture is also vulnerable to climate-rel...
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| author | Fikreyesus, Daniel Tesfaye, Lidya Nebsu, Bayu Ambaw, Gebermedihin Recha, John W.M. |
| author_browse | Ambaw, Gebermedihin Fikreyesus, Daniel Nebsu, Bayu Recha, John W.M. Tesfaye, Lidya |
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| description | Agriculture is the core sector of the Ethiopian economy (Bekabil 2014). However, smallholder farmers that dominate the sector practice rain-fed mixed farming by using unimproved practices leading to low agricultural productivity (Welteji 2018). Ethiopian agriculture is also vulnerable to climate-related risks such as more frequent droughts and flooding, rainfall variability, and heatwaves (high temperatures) (Amsalu 2009). The impacts of hazards related to current weather variability and climate
extremes have already been felt in the country. It is projected that by the year 2050, the negative impacts of climate change, under an extreme scenario of higher temperatures and increased intensity and frequency of extreme events, could cost Ethiopia 8-10% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Robinson et. al. 2013). |
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| spelling | CGSpace1103282024-01-23T12:05:06Z Piloting an ICT-based App for providing weather forecasts, agroadvisory and market information to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia Fikreyesus, Daniel Tesfaye, Lidya Nebsu, Bayu Ambaw, Gebermedihin Recha, John W.M. forecasting agriculture advisory services market information services smallholders farmers information and communication technologies food security climate change Agriculture is the core sector of the Ethiopian economy (Bekabil 2014). However, smallholder farmers that dominate the sector practice rain-fed mixed farming by using unimproved practices leading to low agricultural productivity (Welteji 2018). Ethiopian agriculture is also vulnerable to climate-related risks such as more frequent droughts and flooding, rainfall variability, and heatwaves (high temperatures) (Amsalu 2009). The impacts of hazards related to current weather variability and climate extremes have already been felt in the country. It is projected that by the year 2050, the negative impacts of climate change, under an extreme scenario of higher temperatures and increased intensity and frequency of extreme events, could cost Ethiopia 8-10% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Robinson et. al. 2013). 2020-11-26 2020-11-26T13:01:06Z 2020-11-26T13:01:06Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110328 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Fikreyesus D, Tesfaye L, Nebsu B, Ambaw G, Recha J. 2020. Piloting an ICT-based App for providing weather forecasts, agroadvisory and market information to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. CCAFS Info Note. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). |
| spellingShingle | forecasting agriculture advisory services market information services smallholders farmers information and communication technologies food security climate change Fikreyesus, Daniel Tesfaye, Lidya Nebsu, Bayu Ambaw, Gebermedihin Recha, John W.M. Piloting an ICT-based App for providing weather forecasts, agroadvisory and market information to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia |
| title | Piloting an ICT-based App for providing weather forecasts, agroadvisory and market information to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_full | Piloting an ICT-based App for providing weather forecasts, agroadvisory and market information to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_fullStr | Piloting an ICT-based App for providing weather forecasts, agroadvisory and market information to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Piloting an ICT-based App for providing weather forecasts, agroadvisory and market information to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_short | Piloting an ICT-based App for providing weather forecasts, agroadvisory and market information to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia |
| title_sort | piloting an ict based app for providing weather forecasts agroadvisory and market information to smallholder farmers in ethiopia |
| topic | forecasting agriculture advisory services market information services smallholders farmers information and communication technologies food security climate change |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110328 |
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