Digital tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation

KEY MESSAGES ◼ Digital tool functions for agricultural technical advice and performance assessment related to climate change adaptation and mitigation are limited. ◼ Tools for technical advice provided functions related to climate change adaptation more often than mitigation. Yet most tools (92%)...

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Autores principales: Dittmer, Kyle M., Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Burns, Sessie A., Shelton, Sadie W.
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126002
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author Dittmer, Kyle M.
Wollenberg, Eva Karoline
Burns, Sessie A.
Shelton, Sadie W.
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description KEY MESSAGES ◼ Digital tool functions for agricultural technical advice and performance assessment related to climate change adaptation and mitigation are limited. ◼ Tools for technical advice provided functions related to climate change adaptation more often than mitigation. Yet most tools (92%) addressed three or fewer climate change adaptation indicators. ◼ Technical advice with access to weather information or early warning systems for hazardous weather was the most common function of the tools analyzed. ◼ Performance assessment tools were predominantly GHG emission calculators. ◼ Features for inclusive communication with tool users (e.g., iconography, video or audio messages) included messaging (31% of tools) and voice and video (28%). ◼ Exemplary tool features for climate change adaptation and mitigation should inform future digital tool development for agriculture and food systems. ◼ Tools that provide coaching functions and support farmer input enable farmers to weigh the trade-offs of their decisions and add context on how to achieve and sustain change. ◼ Achieving scale for climate-informed digital tools does not just mean increasing farmers’ access to tools, but also supporting action recommendations in tools and identifying priority, large-scale impacts in terms of the level of climate risk mitigated and resilience built, or climate change mitigation achieved.
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spelling CGSpace1260022025-11-05T11:17:00Z Digital tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation Dittmer, Kyle M. Wollenberg, Eva Karoline Burns, Sessie A. Shelton, Sadie W. agroecology food systems smallholders-smallholder farmers social inclusion digital extension tools digital technology climate change agroecología sistemas alimentarios pequeños agricultores KEY MESSAGES ◼ Digital tool functions for agricultural technical advice and performance assessment related to climate change adaptation and mitigation are limited. ◼ Tools for technical advice provided functions related to climate change adaptation more often than mitigation. Yet most tools (92%) addressed three or fewer climate change adaptation indicators. ◼ Technical advice with access to weather information or early warning systems for hazardous weather was the most common function of the tools analyzed. ◼ Performance assessment tools were predominantly GHG emission calculators. ◼ Features for inclusive communication with tool users (e.g., iconography, video or audio messages) included messaging (31% of tools) and voice and video (28%). ◼ Exemplary tool features for climate change adaptation and mitigation should inform future digital tool development for agriculture and food systems. ◼ Tools that provide coaching functions and support farmer input enable farmers to weigh the trade-offs of their decisions and add context on how to achieve and sustain change. ◼ Achieving scale for climate-informed digital tools does not just mean increasing farmers’ access to tools, but also supporting action recommendations in tools and identifying priority, large-scale impacts in terms of the level of climate risk mitigated and resilience built, or climate change mitigation achieved. 2022-12-09 2022-12-14T16:49:52Z 2022-12-14T16:49:52Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126002 en Open Access application/pdf Dittmer, K.M.; Wollenberg, E.; Burns, S.; Shelton, S. (2022) Digital tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Agroecological TRANSITIONS Programme Policy Brief. Cali (Colombia): Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). 6 p.
spellingShingle agroecology
food systems
smallholders-smallholder farmers
social inclusion
digital extension tools
digital technology
climate change
agroecología
sistemas alimentarios
pequeños agricultores
Dittmer, Kyle M.
Wollenberg, Eva Karoline
Burns, Sessie A.
Shelton, Sadie W.
Digital tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation
title Digital tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation
title_full Digital tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation
title_fullStr Digital tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation
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title_short Digital tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation
title_sort digital tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation
topic agroecology
food systems
smallholders-smallholder farmers
social inclusion
digital extension tools
digital technology
climate change
agroecología
sistemas alimentarios
pequeños agricultores
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