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Digitalization of extension data collection for climate risk management by the Ministry of Agriculture of Costa Rica

In 2019 the Alliance Bioversity-CIAT combined two Open-Source software (FormShare and Open Data Kit) to create a digital solution for the Ministry of Agriculture of Costa Rica to manage the impacts of drought. The solution allowed the Ministry to collect vulnerability indicators using mobile phones....

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Main Author: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
Format: Case Study
Language:Inglés
Published: 2020
Subjects:
agriculture
climate
drought
indicators
data collection
management
data
risk management
risk
vulnerability
open data
extension
software
collection
impacts
digital
case studies
agrifood systems
rural development
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121254
Summary:In 2019 the Alliance Bioversity-CIAT combined two Open-Source software (FormShare and Open Data Kit) to create a digital solution for the Ministry of Agriculture of Costa Rica to manage the impacts of drought. The solution allowed the Ministry to collect vulnerability indicators using mobile phones. It was the first attempt of the Ministry to move to digital data collection. Since 2020 the Ministry runs all their agricultural census using ODK and FormShare effectively digitizing all their data collection.

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