Published 2021
“…The following are key aspects of the general enabling environment that should be addressed in endeavours to invest in and improve DCAS and its contribution to small scale producers’ climate resilience:
• Construction and maintenance of national data systems that ascribe to data governance standards, allowing for the creation of coherence among the multiple providers of
information and advice
• Monitoring, evaluation, learning and co-production of improved services, with accountable partnership between public and private sector actors
• Building of farmer capacity for access, use and driving co-production of DCAS, while recognizing that complementary non-digital communication channels could avoid disadvantaging farmers that face barriers to accessing digital delivery channels
• Garnering sufficient public commitment and sustainable public goods investment, establishing viable business models, and gathering supporting evidence to sustain impact at scale
• Provision and effective use of high-quality data and derived
information, partly through addressing any gaps in the data collection and
management systems of the public meteorological, agricultural and environmental
information on which quality DCAS depend
• Extending DCAS investment to support other agricultural value chain actors whose capacity to
manage climate risk significantly impacts small scale producers…”
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