Complying with farmers’ conditions and needs using new weather and climate information approaches and technologies

Stigter, C.J.; Tan, Ying; Das, H. P.; Zheng, Dong; Vega, Rosaura; Việt, Nguyễn Văn; Bakheit, N.I.; Abdullahi, Yusuf

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-72746-0_11

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“…In line with the CREWS approach, at this site, ANAM provided training for producers and breeders in the use of WCS through roving seminars [23,24]. Five were held in 2018 with an average of 70 people per session, another one in 2019 and one in 2020, and rain gauges were also distributed.…”

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Access, Uptake, Use and Impacts of Agrometeorological Services in Sahelian Rural Areas: The Case of Burkina Faso

Tarchiani¹,

Coulibaly²,

Grégoire³

et al. 2021

Agronomy

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Agrometeorological services, as part of weather and climate services, are expected to play a key role in supporting sub-Saharan agriculture facing climate change and variability. In the Sahel, smallholder farmers relying on rainfed crop production systems are particularly vulnerable to climate change and variability because of low resilience and coping capacity. The provision of agrometeorological services is growing across Africa, but they often remain inaccessible for the majority of smallholder farmers or are not very relevant to support on-the-ground decision-making. Our work aims to demonstrate the hypothesis that agrometeorological services can effectively improve agricultural productivity and sustainability provided that appropriate mechanisms are put in place to ensure access, uptake and action. The paper illustrates the case study of Burkina Faso, where the National Meteorological Service, with the support of the World Meteorological Organization, engaged in the provision of accessible, reliable and relevant agrometeorological services for farmers. The study demonstrates that farmers, even in remote rural areas, are willing to profit from weather and climate services for strategic and tactical decisions in agricultural management because of relevant economic benefit. These benefits can be summarized as a 40% reduction in production costs and a 41% increase in income. Results also highlight environmental positive impacts such as the reduction by 50% in the use of fertilizers. Nevertheless, the study concludes that in order to scale-up weather and climate services in West Africa, a new business model released from the development projects approach should be explored.

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Access, Uptake, Use and Impacts of Agrometeorological Services in Sahelian Rural Areas: The Case of Burkina Faso

Tarchiani¹,

Coulibaly²,

Grégoire³

et al. 2021

Agronomy

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“…Community preparedness has also been strengthened by adopting and adapting the approach developed by Stitger et al [62,63] for drought risk management through Roving Seminars on agrometeorology and agroclimatology. A new concept of Roving Seminars for flood risk management has been developed.…”

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Community and Impact Based Early Warning System for Flood Risk Preparedness: The Experience of the Sirba River in Niger

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Floods have recently become a major hazard in West Africa (WA) in terms of both their magnitude and frequency. They affect livelihoods, infrastructure and production systems, hence impacting on Sustainable Development (SD). Early Warning Systems (EWS) for floods that properly address all four EWS components, while also being community and impact-based, do not yet exist in WA. Existing systems address only the main rivers, are conceived in a top-down manner and are hazard-centered. This study on the Sirba river in Niger aims to demonstrate that an operational community and impact-based EWS for floods can be set up by leveraging the existing tools, local stakeholders and knowledge. The main finding of the study is that bridging the gap between top-down and bottom-up approaches is possible by directly connecting the available technical capabilities with the local level through a participatory approach. This allows the beneficiaries to define the rules that will develop the whole system, strengthening their ability to understand the information and take action. Moreover, the integration of hydrological forecasts and observations with the community monitoring and preparedness system provides a lead time suitable for operational decision-making at national and local levels. The study points out the need for the commitment of governments to the transboundary sharing of flood information for EWS and SD.

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“…Solutions of farming problems are not worked on or the solutions/livelihood connections are poor (e.g. Stigter et al, 2005a;Stigter et al, 2007). Could this be different?…”

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Agrometeorology from science to extension: Assessment of needs and provision of services

Stigter¹

2008

Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment

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After a historical introduction, recent achievements in agrometeorology and their limitations are highlighted. It is then discussed what determines what we do in agrometeorology. It is argued that the needs in the livelihood of farmers should push the scientific support systems and it is exemplified that this is possible. This analysis has serious consequences for science, training, education and extension in agrometeorology. This applies most strongly for developing countries or tropical studies elsewhere. Farmers' livelihoods should be connected through agrometeorological services. Farmer or Climate Field Schools are introduced as a new approach to do so. Examples from China are given in which such Schools or Classes could be used. Finally a pilot project approach for agrometeorological services is discussed in which this could be prepared.

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Complying with farmers’ conditions and needs using new weather and climate information approaches and technologies

Cited by 23 publications

References 15 publications

Access, Uptake, Use and Impacts of Agrometeorological Services in Sahelian Rural Areas: The Case of Burkina Faso

Access, Uptake, Use and Impacts of Agrometeorological Services in Sahelian Rural Areas: The Case of Burkina Faso

Community and Impact Based Early Warning System for Flood Risk Preparedness: The Experience of the Sirba River in Niger

Agrometeorology from science to extension: Assessment of needs and provision of services

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