Climate Services for Agriculture: Empowering Farmers to Manage Risk and Adapt to a Changing Climate in Rwanda (Final Project Report)

A consortium of national and international partners worked from 2016 to 2020 to strengthen the climate information available to the Rwanda’s farmers and agriculture sector through the Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture (RCSA) project, funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID...

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Autores principales: Hansen, James, Kagabo, Desire, Clarkson, Graham, Furlow, John, Fiondella, Francesco
Formato: Informe técnico
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115240
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author Hansen, James
Kagabo, Desire
Clarkson, Graham
Furlow, John
Fiondella, Francesco
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Fiondella, Francesco
Furlow, John
Hansen, James
Kagabo, Desire
author_facet Hansen, James
Kagabo, Desire
Clarkson, Graham
Furlow, John
Fiondella, Francesco
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description A consortium of national and international partners worked from 2016 to 2020 to strengthen the climate information available to the Rwanda’s farmers and agriculture sector through the Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture (RCSA) project, funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). It was launched at a workshop in Kigali on World Meteorological Day, March 23, 2016, with the goal to transform Rwanda’s rural farming communities and agricultural economy through improved climate services and climate risk management. Efforts towards this goal were organized around four target outcomes: 1. Climate services for farmers; 2. Climate services for government and institutions; 3. Climate information provision; and 4. Climate services governance. A final project evaluation used a mix of quantitative and qualitative analyses to assess the influence of the RCSA interventions, in particular PICSA and Radio Listeners Clubs (RLCs), on farmers’ awareness, access and use of climate information; and resulting welfare impacts. The quantitative evaluation was based on a survey of 1,525 farmers sampled from 15 districts. The qualitative component used 32 focus groups and 24 key informant interviews to provide deeper understanding of how women and men have used and benefitted from climate services as a result of project interventions.
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spelling CGSpace1152402025-08-15T13:21:47Z Climate Services for Agriculture: Empowering Farmers to Manage Risk and Adapt to a Changing Climate in Rwanda (Final Project Report) Hansen, James Kagabo, Desire Clarkson, Graham Furlow, John Fiondella, Francesco agriculture food security climate change farmers A consortium of national and international partners worked from 2016 to 2020 to strengthen the climate information available to the Rwanda’s farmers and agriculture sector through the Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture (RCSA) project, funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). It was launched at a workshop in Kigali on World Meteorological Day, March 23, 2016, with the goal to transform Rwanda’s rural farming communities and agricultural economy through improved climate services and climate risk management. Efforts towards this goal were organized around four target outcomes: 1. Climate services for farmers; 2. Climate services for government and institutions; 3. Climate information provision; and 4. Climate services governance. A final project evaluation used a mix of quantitative and qualitative analyses to assess the influence of the RCSA interventions, in particular PICSA and Radio Listeners Clubs (RLCs), on farmers’ awareness, access and use of climate information; and resulting welfare impacts. The quantitative evaluation was based on a survey of 1,525 farmers sampled from 15 districts. The qualitative component used 32 focus groups and 24 key informant interviews to provide deeper understanding of how women and men have used and benefitted from climate services as a result of project interventions. 2021-06-01 2021-09-29T12:36:44Z 2021-09-29T12:36:44Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115240 en Open Access application/pdf CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security Hansen J, Kagabo D, Clarkson G, Furlow J, Fiondella F. 2021. Climate Services for Agriculture: Empowering Farmers to Manage Risk and Adapt to a Changing Climate in Rwanda (Final Project Report). Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
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food security
climate change
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Hansen, James
Kagabo, Desire
Clarkson, Graham
Furlow, John
Fiondella, Francesco
Climate Services for Agriculture: Empowering Farmers to Manage Risk and Adapt to a Changing Climate in Rwanda (Final Project Report)
title Climate Services for Agriculture: Empowering Farmers to Manage Risk and Adapt to a Changing Climate in Rwanda (Final Project Report)
title_full Climate Services for Agriculture: Empowering Farmers to Manage Risk and Adapt to a Changing Climate in Rwanda (Final Project Report)
title_fullStr Climate Services for Agriculture: Empowering Farmers to Manage Risk and Adapt to a Changing Climate in Rwanda (Final Project Report)
title_full_unstemmed Climate Services for Agriculture: Empowering Farmers to Manage Risk and Adapt to a Changing Climate in Rwanda (Final Project Report)
title_short Climate Services for Agriculture: Empowering Farmers to Manage Risk and Adapt to a Changing Climate in Rwanda (Final Project Report)
title_sort climate services for agriculture empowering farmers to manage risk and adapt to a changing climate in rwanda final project report
topic agriculture
food security
climate change
farmers
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115240
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