Scaling up climate services for farmers: Mission Possible. Learning from good practice in Africa and South Asia

This report presents lessons learned from 18 case studies across Africa and South Asia that have developed and delivered weather and climate information and related advisory services for smallholder farmers. The case studies and resulting lessons provide insights on what will be needed to build effe...

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Main Authors: Tall, Arame, Hansen, James, Jay, Alexa, Campbell, Bruce M., Kinyangi, James, Aggarwal, Pramod K., Zougmoré, Robert B.
Format: Informe técnico
Language:Inglés
Published: 2014
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/42445
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author Tall, Arame
Hansen, James
Jay, Alexa
Campbell, Bruce M.
Kinyangi, James
Aggarwal, Pramod K.
Zougmoré, Robert B.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
Hansen, James
Jay, Alexa
Kinyangi, James
Tall, Arame
Zougmoré, Robert B.
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description This report presents lessons learned from 18 case studies across Africa and South Asia that have developed and delivered weather and climate information and related advisory services for smallholder farmers. The case studies and resulting lessons provide insights on what will be needed to build effective national systems for the production, delivery, communication and evaluation of operational climate services for smallholder farmers across the developing world. The case studies include two national-scale programmes that have been the subject of recent assessments: India’s Integrated Agrometeorological Advisory Service (AAS) Program, which provides tailored weather-based agrometeorological advisories to millions of farmers; and Mali’s Projet d’Assistance Agro-meteorologique au Monde Rural, which provided innovative seasonal agrometeorological advisory services for smallholder farmers and 16 less mature initiatives operating at a pilot scale across Africa and South Asia. The case studies were examined from the standpoint of how they address five key challenges for scaling up effective climate services for farmers: salience, access, legitimacy, equity and integration.
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spelling CGSpace424452023-03-12T15:33:11Z Scaling up climate services for farmers: Mission Possible. Learning from good practice in Africa and South Asia Tall, Arame Hansen, James Jay, Alexa Campbell, Bruce M. Kinyangi, James Aggarwal, Pramod K. Zougmoré, Robert B. agriculture food security climate climate change smallholders advisory services information services evaluation This report presents lessons learned from 18 case studies across Africa and South Asia that have developed and delivered weather and climate information and related advisory services for smallholder farmers. The case studies and resulting lessons provide insights on what will be needed to build effective national systems for the production, delivery, communication and evaluation of operational climate services for smallholder farmers across the developing world. The case studies include two national-scale programmes that have been the subject of recent assessments: India’s Integrated Agrometeorological Advisory Service (AAS) Program, which provides tailored weather-based agrometeorological advisories to millions of farmers; and Mali’s Projet d’Assistance Agro-meteorologique au Monde Rural, which provided innovative seasonal agrometeorological advisory services for smallholder farmers and 16 less mature initiatives operating at a pilot scale across Africa and South Asia. The case studies were examined from the standpoint of how they address five key challenges for scaling up effective climate services for farmers: salience, access, legitimacy, equity and integration. 2014-09 2014-09-18T09:37:39Z 2015-12-03T06:31:55Z 2014-09-18T09:37:39Z 2015-12-03T06:31:55Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/42445 en Open Access application/pdf Tall A, Hansen J, Jay A, Campbell B, Kinyangi J, Aggarwal PK, Zougmoré R. 2014. Scaling up climate services for farmers: Mission Possible. Learning from good practice in Africa and South Asia. CCAFS Report No. 13. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
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food security
climate
climate change
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advisory services
information services
evaluation
Tall, Arame
Hansen, James
Jay, Alexa
Campbell, Bruce M.
Kinyangi, James
Aggarwal, Pramod K.
Zougmoré, Robert B.
Scaling up climate services for farmers: Mission Possible. Learning from good practice in Africa and South Asia
title Scaling up climate services for farmers: Mission Possible. Learning from good practice in Africa and South Asia
title_full Scaling up climate services for farmers: Mission Possible. Learning from good practice in Africa and South Asia
title_fullStr Scaling up climate services for farmers: Mission Possible. Learning from good practice in Africa and South Asia
title_full_unstemmed Scaling up climate services for farmers: Mission Possible. Learning from good practice in Africa and South Asia
title_short Scaling up climate services for farmers: Mission Possible. Learning from good practice in Africa and South Asia
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food security
climate
climate change
smallholders
advisory services
information services
evaluation
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