Strengthening the climate services chain in Central America

Central American farmers are highly vulnerable to climate variability, with crop losses observed throughout the region on a virtually annual basis. At the same time, local stakeholders and farmers generally have limited access to existing climate and forecast information, do not have sufficient capa...

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Autores principales: Martínez Barón, Deissy, Navarro-Racines, Carlos Eduardo, Martínez, Jesús David, González Romero, Carmen, Muñoz, Angel G, Castellanos, Andrea, Giraldo Mendez, Diana Carolina, Prager, Steven D, Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando
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Publicado: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114111
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author Martínez Barón, Deissy
Navarro-Racines, Carlos Eduardo
Martínez, Jesús David
González Romero, Carmen
Muñoz, Angel G
Castellanos, Andrea
Giraldo Mendez, Diana Carolina
Prager, Steven D
Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando
author_browse Castellanos, Andrea
Giraldo Mendez, Diana Carolina
González Romero, Carmen
Martínez Barón, Deissy
Martínez, Jesús David
Muñoz, Angel G
Navarro-Racines, Carlos Eduardo
Prager, Steven D
Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando
author_facet Martínez Barón, Deissy
Navarro-Racines, Carlos Eduardo
Martínez, Jesús David
González Romero, Carmen
Muñoz, Angel G
Castellanos, Andrea
Giraldo Mendez, Diana Carolina
Prager, Steven D
Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando
author_sort Martínez Barón, Deissy
collection Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace)
description Central American farmers are highly vulnerable to climate variability, with crop losses observed throughout the region on a virtually annual basis. At the same time, local stakeholders and farmers generally have limited access to existing climate and forecast information, do not have sufficient capacities to understand the climate information and/or mechanisms to relate this information to the impact that climate variations can generate at the local level. This precludes the translation of information into actionable knowledge, and therefore into action. Here we describe a process through which scientists and strategic partners have co-developed, tested, and scaled out approaches to assess, co-produce, translate and transfer climate information to enable agricultural decision making (e.g. Next Generation of climate forecasts -NextGen, the Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees - LTAC, the Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture -PICSA). Through these approaches’ farmers and stakeholders access information about climate variations at multiple timescales, understand how these can affect crops, and design measures to reduce crop loss, particularly providing agronomic recommendations to farmers. We systematically describe the process of evidence generation, creation, partner engagement, scaling up, and monitoring of these approaches throughout Central America at a national level and at the local level especially in application sites known as the Climate-Smart Villages.
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spelling CGSpace1141112025-11-05T11:17:18Z Strengthening the climate services chain in Central America Martínez Barón, Deissy Navarro-Racines, Carlos Eduardo Martínez, Jesús David González Romero, Carmen Muñoz, Angel G Castellanos, Andrea Giraldo Mendez, Diana Carolina Prager, Steven D Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando climate change climate change adaptation climate change mitigation agriculture climate services food security Central American farmers are highly vulnerable to climate variability, with crop losses observed throughout the region on a virtually annual basis. At the same time, local stakeholders and farmers generally have limited access to existing climate and forecast information, do not have sufficient capacities to understand the climate information and/or mechanisms to relate this information to the impact that climate variations can generate at the local level. This precludes the translation of information into actionable knowledge, and therefore into action. Here we describe a process through which scientists and strategic partners have co-developed, tested, and scaled out approaches to assess, co-produce, translate and transfer climate information to enable agricultural decision making (e.g. Next Generation of climate forecasts -NextGen, the Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees - LTAC, the Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture -PICSA). Through these approaches’ farmers and stakeholders access information about climate variations at multiple timescales, understand how these can affect crops, and design measures to reduce crop loss, particularly providing agronomic recommendations to farmers. We systematically describe the process of evidence generation, creation, partner engagement, scaling up, and monitoring of these approaches throughout Central America at a national level and at the local level especially in application sites known as the Climate-Smart Villages. 2021-05-20 2021-06-24T13:48:29Z 2021-06-24T13:48:29Z Poster https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114111 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Martinez-Barón D, Navarro-Racines C, Martinez-Salgado J, González-Romero C, Muñoz A, Castellanos A, Giraldo Mendez D, Prager S, Ramírez-Villegas J. 2021. Strengthening the climate services chain in Central America. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
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climate change mitigation
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food security
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Navarro-Racines, Carlos Eduardo
Martínez, Jesús David
González Romero, Carmen
Muñoz, Angel G
Castellanos, Andrea
Giraldo Mendez, Diana Carolina
Prager, Steven D
Ramírez Villegas, Julián Armando
Strengthening the climate services chain in Central America
title Strengthening the climate services chain in Central America
title_full Strengthening the climate services chain in Central America
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climate change adaptation
climate change mitigation
agriculture
climate services
food security
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