A systematic approach to assess climate information products applied to agriculture and food security in Guatemala and Colombia

Bouroncle, Claudia; Müller, Anna; Giraldo, Diana; Rios, David; Imbach, Pablo; Girón, Estuardo; Portillo, Fernando; Aristizábal, Alejandra Boni; Etten, Jacob van; Ramírez-Villegas, Julián

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2019.100137

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“…The financial incentives for the agricultural extension are more limited due to budgetary constraints, or the information from ICCIS is monotonous (updated twice a year). This finding is similar to the study by Bouroncle et al [55], which implies the user is constrained by the climate information system. This can be overcome by integrating third-party developers to use the ICCIS as a service, such as by a pesticide or fertilizer producer or supplier.…”

Section: Users Access To the Iccis Websitesupporting

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The Integrated Cropping Calendar Information System: A Coping Mechanism to Climate Variability for Sustainable Agriculture in Indonesia

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Climate change and its variability are some of the most critical threats to sustainable agriculture, with potentially severe consequences on Indonesia’s agriculture, such as changes in rainfall patterns, especially the onset of the wet season and the temporal distribution of rainfall. Most Indonesian farmers receive support from agricultural extension services, and therefore, design their agricultural calendar based on personal experience without considering global climate phenomena, such as La Niña and El Niño, which difficult to interpret on a local scale. This paper describes the Integrated Cropping Calendar Information System (ICCIS) as a mechanism for adapting to climate variability. The ICCIS contains recommendations on planting time, cropping pattern, planting area, varieties, fertilizers, agricultural machinery, potential livestock feed, and crop damage due to climate extremes for rice, maize, and soybean. To accelerate the dissemination of information, the ICCIS is presented in an integrated web-based information system. The ICCIS is disseminated to extension workers and farmers by Task Force of the Assessment Institute for Agricultural Technology (AIAT) located in each province. Based on the survey results, it is known that the ICCIS adoption rate is moderate to high. The AIAT must actively encourage and support the ICCIS Task Force team in each province. Concerning the technological recommendations, it is necessary to update the recommendations for varieties, fertilizer, and feed to be more compatible with local conditions. More accurate information and more intensive dissemination can enrich farmers’ knowledge, allowing for a better understanding of climate hazards and maintaining agricultural production.

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The Integrated Cropping Calendar Information System: A Coping Mechanism to Climate Variability for Sustainable Agriculture in Indonesia

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“…Seen this way, quality is assessed relative to whether people recognize it as useful and useable according to the particular standards of use in each institution (Dilling and Lemos, 2011). For instance, a seasonal forecast's use will be differently appraised by meteorologists than by an insurance company calculating its losses, or a farmer timing her harvest [see e.g., Tall et al (2018), Vaughan et al (2019a,b), and Bouroncle et al (2019)]. From this standpoint, users are in the best position to determine quality; either through their voiced preferences, or through other metrics of "impact, " like the uptake of a climate service.…”

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Quality Assessment in Co-developing Climate Services in Norway and the Netherlands

Bremer¹,

Wardekker²,

Jensen³

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Front. Clim.

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Climate services, and research on climate services, have mutually developed over the past 20 years, with quality assessment a central issue for orienting both practitioners and researchers. However, quality assessment is becoming more complex as the field evolves, the range and types of climate services expands, and there is an increasing appeal to co-production of climate services. Scholars describe climate services as emerging from complex knowledge systems, where information moves through institutions and actors attribute various qualities to these services. Seeing climate services' qualities as derived from and activated in knowledge systems, we argue for comprehensive assessment conducted with an extended peer community of actors from the system; co-evaluation. Drawing inspiration from Knowledge Quality Assessment and post-normal science traditions, we develop the Co-QA assessment framework; a checklist-based framework for the co-creation of criteria to assess the quality of climate services. The Co-QA framework is a deliberation support tool for critical dialogue on the quality of climate services within a co-construction collective. It provides a novel, structured, and comprehensive way to engage an extended peer community in the process of quality assessment of climate services. We demonstrate how we tested the Co-QA—through interviews, focus groups and desktop research—in two co-production processes of innovative climate services; an ex post evaluation of the “Klimathon” in Bergen, Norway, and an ex ante evaluation for designing place-based climate services in Dordrecht, the Netherlands. These cases reveal the challenges of assessing climate services in complex knowledge systems, where many concerns cannot be captured in straight-forward metrics. And they show the utility of the Co-QA in facilitating co-evaluation.

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“…A agricultura continua sendo o motor de crescimento nos países em desenvolvimento e sua estrutura fundamental tem sido os pequenos produtores (DE JANVRI;SADOULET, 2020); muito importante no cenário colombiano, com uma grande contribuição para sua economia graças às características naturais da Colômbia, cujos serviços ecossistêmicos contribuem muito na geração de valor para o ser humano, por exemplo, alimentos, água potável, energia, regulação climática e recreação (ARIAS et al, 2017;ETTER et al, 2006). No entanto, o ambiente agrícola pode ser afetado por mudanças climáticas e outros choques exógenos que aumentam a incerteza e podem ser prejudiciais à produção e à segurança alimentar (BOURONCLE et al, 2019); em relação a sua disponibilidade, acesso e utilização (STEPHENS et al, 2018).…”

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Dinâmica socioeconômica da folha de “bijao”, uma embalagem artesanal e responsável, marcada pela sustentabilidade

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A cadeia de valor atua como um catalisador para as relações entre os agentes que interagem a fim de perseguir objetivos comuns. Dentro do presente estudo, se realiza uma aproximação a um elo na produção do “bocadillo veleño”, que recebeu recentemente a denominação de origem e por isso, a proteção contra imitações ou produtos similares que são elaborados fora do ambiente que inclui a área geográfica de interesse: os municípios de Vélez, Barbosa, Moniquirá, Puente Nacional e Guavatá, onde estão localizados produtores de goiaba, e processadores de folhas de “bijao” (Calathea lutea (Aubl.) E. Mey. ex Schult.), embalagem do produto, tema central deste artigo, e “bocadillo veleño” como produto final. O estudo contempla uma amostra de 16 propriedades onde o “bijao” é produzido, localizadas no município de Moniquirá (Boyacá, Colômbia), e que possuem ou tiveram algum tipo de relação com a “Associação dos Bijaeros da Província de Ricaurte” (ASOBIJAO), associação que reúne os produtores da folha, como agente integrador, e onde se faz uma aproximação ao seu perfil socioeconômico. Os achados do estudo ratificam a necessidade de alavancar esses esforços que surgem de uma dinâmica associativa, que gira em torno de um produto, com renome nacional e com alguns mercados estabelecidos no exterior; nele, as famílias se beneficiam, com seu conhecimento ancestral, e propõem um valor agregado artesanal focado na sustentabilidade, já que seu selo é um invólucro natural de um produto que ainda resiste ao uso do plástico.

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A systematic approach to assess climate information products applied to agriculture and food security in Guatemala and Colombia

Cited by 16 publications

References 62 publications

The Integrated Cropping Calendar Information System: A Coping Mechanism to Climate Variability for Sustainable Agriculture in Indonesia

The Integrated Cropping Calendar Information System: A Coping Mechanism to Climate Variability for Sustainable Agriculture in Indonesia

Quality Assessment in Co-developing Climate Services in Norway and the Netherlands

Dinâmica socioeconômica da folha de “bijao”, uma embalagem artesanal e responsável, marcada pela sustentabilidade

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