Putting the farmer at the center of climate services

Dorward, Peter; Clarkson, Graham; Poskitt, Sam; Stern, R. D.

doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2021.08.004

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“…Addressing this challenge requires climate services to emphasise which decision-making processes demand what information or why farmers need it and the factors influencing these decisions at the ground level (Singh et al, 2016). Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) is an agricultural extension and climate services approach that supports farmers in making plans and decisions tailored to each farmer's own "context" in their production systems (Dorward et al, 2015). It highlights the importance of prior knowledge, trust building, innovative learning spaces for collaboration, opportunities for networking, and active participation for experimentation and reflection regardless of their level of literacy.…”

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“…It highlights the importance of prior knowledge, trust building, innovative learning spaces for collaboration, opportunities for networking, and active participation for experimentation and reflection regardless of their level of literacy. PICSA is implemented by facilitators (e.g., extension officers, nongovernmental organisation field staff, community volunteers, and researchers) through a series of meetings with groups of farmers that integrate a set of structured information and participatory tools, as described by Dorward et al (2015) and summarized in Figure 1.…”

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First experiences with participatory climate services for farmers in Central America: A case study in Honduras

Giraldo,

Clarkson,

Dorward

et al. 2024

Adv Ag Dev

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While climate services for small-scale farmers are gaining recognition for contributing to adaptation and resilience to climate variability and change, their provision in developing countries remains a critical challenge. Effective climate services consider why and how farmers of varied socioeconomic background make relevant decisions avoiding the traditional prescriptive forms of transfer that merely focus on delivering climate information. Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa shows that climate services for agriculture generates transformations in how farmers access and use climate information, as well as changes in farmer decision-making. In this paper, we address the question of whether the same effect is also seen in Latin America, where farming systems, farming decisions, socioeconomic contexts and non-climate constraints are very different to those of Africa. A group of 209 farmers in the dry corridor in Honduras was studied. We find that 98% of the trained farmers did uptake and use the climate information, and some 73% expressed that the agroclimatic information was key to the success of their harvest despite the challenging 2019 season. Some 43% of the farmers made changes in farming practices. In particular, farmers changed the crop they grew, the crop and land management, the planting dates, inputs and crop varieties. These changes reportedly had positive effects on their food security, and income. These findings support the hypothesis that Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) plays a positive role in providing effective climate services in Central America, improving decision-making, and enabling farmers to make their own decisions based on the analysis of information and their demands regardless of their level of literacy. We pose that participatory climate services in agriculture can catalyse processes of long-term transformation in farming systems, notably through lifting farmers out of poverty and food insecurity and providing an integrated approach to make informed decisions in the face of climatic variation.

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First experiences with participatory climate services for farmers in Central America: A case study in Honduras

Giraldo,

Clarkson,

Dorward

et al. 2024

Adv Ag Dev

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“…These workshops were held between May and July 2021. The training was based on the Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) manual [39]. The methodology proposed in the PICSA manual is (as indicated by its name) participatory.…”

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A Long Way toward Climate Smart Agriculture: The Importance of Addressing Gender Inequity in the Agricultural Sector of Guatemala

Mosso

Pons

Beza-Beza

2022

Land

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In the context of climate change’s detrimental effects on agricultural production and food security, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) strategies constitute a promising approach to reduce vulnerability and boost adaptation capacity and resilience within farmers. However, CSA strategies should address gender dynamics to reach their full potential. This study analyzed the barriers and opportunities for the implementation of gender-sensitive CSA strategies in rural Guatemala, a low-latitude country with a high gender gap index, through the perceptions of agricultural extensionists. For this purpose, we conducted an online survey among Guatemalan agricultural extensionists who attended a series of Climate Services for Agriculture workshops between May and July 2021 and analyzed the results using a qualitative approach. Results suggest that women in rural Guatemala are frequently excluded from climate information access, agricultural training, and decision-making spaces in which agricultural resource management strategies are defined. We argue that this exclusion represents a barrier to the improvement in adaptation capacity and resilience and that gender inequity should be addressed to implement successful gender-sensitive CSA approaches. Generating gender-sensitive indicators and training extensionists against gender bias could be a starting point, but further research is necessary to understand gender dynamics in rural Guatemala.

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Exploring the effects of a participatory climate services approach on smallholder decision-making in Rwanda using a gender lens

Nsengiyumva

Clarkson

Gumucio

et al. 2022

Gender, Technology and Development

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Putting the farmer at the center of climate services

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First experiences with participatory climate services for farmers in Central America: A case study in Honduras

First experiences with participatory climate services for farmers in Central America: A case study in Honduras

A Long Way toward Climate Smart Agriculture: The Importance of Addressing Gender Inequity in the Agricultural Sector of Guatemala

Exploring the effects of a participatory climate services approach on smallholder decision-making in Rwanda using a gender lens

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