Putting social networks to practical use: Improving last-mile dissemination systems for climate and market information services in developing countries

Simon, Wolfram J.; Krupnik, Timothy J.; Aguilar-Gallegos, Norman; Halbherr, Lucia; Groot, J.C.J.

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2021.100248

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“…According to Collins and Lazier [18], ensuring that services are developed in a manner that is highly receptive to innovative ideas, regardless of whether the ideas originate internally or externally, can be key to developing sustainable climate services. Innovation in terms of the dissemination of climate services is also an essential element that can help increase the usability of climate services, especially the use of social networks and social media platforms [19]. Several initiatives in the market are exploring the use of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies to develop services that are relevant to users [20].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Failure to use appropriate dissemination channels can greatly devalue a potentially useful climate service. Improvement of the dissemination of climate services is a goal for many organizations because of the usability of climate services around the world [19]. There are several ways to disseminate services to end users, including newsletters, television, radio, pamphlets, social media, computer applications, mobile applications, SMS, and social networks.…”

Section: Accessibilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Move towards Developing Usable Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Services for the Agricultural Sector

Moeletsi,

Tsubo

2024

Climate

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Dryland farming is at the center of increasing pressure to produce more food for the growing population in an environment that is highly variable and with high expectations for the standard of their production systems. While there is mounting pressure for increased productivity, the responsibility to protect the environment and diminish the agricultural sector’s carbon footprint is receiving growing emphasis. Achieving these two goals calls for a consolidated effort to ensure that the scientific community and service providers partner with farmers to create a sustainable food production system that does not harm the environment. In this paper, we studied the nature of the services present in the market and identified ways that could be used to improve the climate services available to the agricultural sector. Important factors that could increase the usability of climate services include coproduction, context-specific information, innovation, demand-driven services, timeliness of services, highly applicable information, provision of services in the correct format, services that increase user experience, specificity of services to a locale, and services that are easily accessible.

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A Move towards Developing Usable Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Services for the Agricultural Sector

Moeletsi,

Tsubo

2024

Climate

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“…It has been applied to analyze a variety of topics concerned with agricultural research and technology. SNA has been mostly used to analyze agricultural technology diffusion and adoption in different contexts (Aguilar-Gallegos et al, 2015;Filippini et al, 2020;Gava et al, 2017;Mohankumar et al, 2024;Ramírez, 2013;Wang et al 2020), weather and market information flow among farmers (Simon et al, 2021), the development of farming approaches like precision agriculture (Aleixandre-Tudó et al, 2018), or the collaboration of multistakeholder partnerships in agricultural innovation for developing countries (Hermans et al, 2017;Vishnu et al, 2020). Some other studies developed SNA to study trends in specific crops as it is the case with rice in India (Kumar et al, 2020) and China (Sun and Yuan, 2020).…”

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Collaboration networks in agricultural research in Uruguay: An exploration based on social network analysis

Bianco Bozzo,

Tomassini

2024

Outlook Agric

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Scientific collaboration networks connect researchers across institutions and academic disciplines. Agricultural research involves multiple stakeholders and academic disciplines to address increasingly complex and diverse research agendas. However, the dynamics of collaboration and the patterns of interaction in the agricultural sciences have been little investigated. Uruguay has a rich tradition in agricultural research, but little is known about the ways in which institutional and interdisciplinary collaboration occur and have evolved recently. This article uses relational data from projects documented in researchers’ vitas (CVs) to examine patterns of collaboration in agricultural research in Uruguay during the period 2000–2017. Collaboration networks were explored with social network analysis (SNA) resulting in networks involving varied institutions and academic disciplines. An inter-institutional network with a center and periphery structure is revealed with long-standing science and technology centers as the fundamental nodes. Interdisciplinary collaborations show diversification over time with more academic fields involved in research projects in the agricultural sciences. Joint research between agricultural sciences and other academic fields to address complex current phenomena could benefit from increasing connections with multiple fields in the environmental, social, and health sciences. The study shows the usefulness of SNA and research project data to improve the understanding of collaboration patterns in agricultural research.

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“…Access to relevant and timely weather information is an important factor in increasing farmers' resilience to climate change. Based on the research results, there is an increase in enthusiasm in increasing the dissemination of weather information to the farmers (Simon et al, 2021). Climate information should be communicated in a language that local farmers understand and linked directly to agricultural management decisionmaking to ensure that the information is timely and usable by smallholders (Antwi-Agyei et al, 2021).…”

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Analysis of User Views of the Climate Information System in Indonesia

Faradiba

Saputra

2023

TIK

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Climate information is important in decision making. Access to relevant and timely weather information is an important factor in increasing farmers' resilience to climate change. Information systems are considered essential for enhancing the ability of individuals, businesses and governments to adapt to change and climate change. Information users can use the information system to assist in making decisions about management adjustments to climate projections. Climate information should be communicated in languages understood by local farmers and linked directly to farm management decision-making processes to ensure information is timely and usable by small producers. The survey was conducted on the user's level of trust in the climate information system issued by the BMKG. No less than 59 respondents stated that the climate information obtained was very good, accurate and timely, received late, difficult to understand, diverse climate information did not reach all sectors. In order to remain productive in running the agricultural industry, accurate information is needed so that users can make optimal use of it. By knowing climate information, climate risks can be minimized.

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Putting social networks to practical use: Improving last-mile dissemination systems for climate and market information services in developing countries

Cited by 9 publications

References 51 publications

A Move towards Developing Usable Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Services for the Agricultural Sector

A Move towards Developing Usable Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Services for the Agricultural Sector

Collaboration networks in agricultural research in Uruguay: An exploration based on social network analysis

Analysis of User Views of the Climate Information System in Indonesia

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