Interactive radio’s promising role in climate information services: Farm Radio International concept paper

This paper focuses on how interactive radio programming can increase the reach of weather and seasonal climate information and related advisory services. In doing so, they can enhance small-scale farmers’ capacity to make optimal decisions and manage risks based on a better understanding of proba...

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Main Authors: Perkins, Kevin, Huggins-Rao, Sheila, Hansen, James, Mossel, J. van, Weighton, L., Lynag, S.
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/70260
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author Perkins, Kevin
Huggins-Rao, Sheila
Hansen, James
Mossel, J. van
Weighton, L.
Lynag, S.
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Huggins-Rao, Sheila
Lynag, S.
Mossel, J. van
Perkins, Kevin
Weighton, L.
author_facet Perkins, Kevin
Huggins-Rao, Sheila
Hansen, James
Mossel, J. van
Weighton, L.
Lynag, S.
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description This paper focuses on how interactive radio programming can increase the reach of weather and seasonal climate information and related advisory services. In doing so, they can enhance small-scale farmers’ capacity to make optimal decisions and manage risks based on a better understanding of probabilistic seasonal forecasts. The objective is to outline strategy that could vastly and affordably expand the number of small-scale farmers that are reached by and benefit from weather and climate information and related advisory services. Building on Farm Radio International’s (FRI) pioneering African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI), we assess the opportunities for interactive radio to provide integrated climate and advisory information while increasing farmers’ equitable access to salient and legitimate programming. We describe a number of practical strategies that can be used to make radio-based climate communication interactive, outline elements of a successful interactive radio service targeting rural communities, and discuss costs and other issues required for sustainability.
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spelling CGSpace702602024-09-13T15:15:26Z Interactive radio’s promising role in climate information services: Farm Radio International concept paper Perkins, Kevin Huggins-Rao, Sheila Hansen, James Mossel, J. van Weighton, L. Lynag, S. radio ict climate services advisory services communication agriculture climate change food security This paper focuses on how interactive radio programming can increase the reach of weather and seasonal climate information and related advisory services. In doing so, they can enhance small-scale farmers’ capacity to make optimal decisions and manage risks based on a better understanding of probabilistic seasonal forecasts. The objective is to outline strategy that could vastly and affordably expand the number of small-scale farmers that are reached by and benefit from weather and climate information and related advisory services. Building on Farm Radio International’s (FRI) pioneering African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI), we assess the opportunities for interactive radio to provide integrated climate and advisory information while increasing farmers’ equitable access to salient and legitimate programming. We describe a number of practical strategies that can be used to make radio-based climate communication interactive, outline elements of a successful interactive radio service targeting rural communities, and discuss costs and other issues required for sustainability. 2015-12-20 2016-02-02T16:06:45Z 2016-02-02T16:06:45Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/70260 en Open Access application/pdf Perkins K, Huggins-Rao S, Hansen J, van Mossel J, Weighton L, Lynagh S, 2015. Interactive radio’s promising role in climate information services: Farm Radio International concept paper. CCAFS Working Paper no. 156. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
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Perkins, Kevin
Huggins-Rao, Sheila
Hansen, James
Mossel, J. van
Weighton, L.
Lynag, S.
Interactive radio’s promising role in climate information services: Farm Radio International concept paper
title Interactive radio’s promising role in climate information services: Farm Radio International concept paper
title_full Interactive radio’s promising role in climate information services: Farm Radio International concept paper
title_fullStr Interactive radio’s promising role in climate information services: Farm Radio International concept paper
title_full_unstemmed Interactive radio’s promising role in climate information services: Farm Radio International concept paper
title_short Interactive radio’s promising role in climate information services: Farm Radio International concept paper
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climate services
advisory services
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agriculture
climate change
food security
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