Scoping, options analysis and design of a ‘Climate Information and Services Programme’ for Africa (CIASA): Literature review

Graham, Richard; Visman, Emma; Wade, Stephen; Amato, Rosanna; Bain, Caroline L.; Janes, Tamara; Leathes, Bill; Lumbroso, D.; Cornforth, Rosalind; Boyd, Emily; Parker, D. E.

doi:10.12774/eod_cr.may2015.grahamr

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“…Despite the challenges, countries are demonstrating their interest in better integrating climate change across sectors in plans to update NDCs in 2020. There are a limited number of examples of national-level plans that incorporate more transformative approaches to adaptation that are based on long-term climate projections and increasingly comprehensive climate and Earth systems models (Graham et al 2015). In developing Climate services tailored to guide and inform major agricultural shifts are needed to better meet the needs of agricultural adaptation funding entities, planners, policymakers, and research organizations.…”

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Applying Climate Services to Transformative Adaptation in Agriculture

Ashley¹,

Carter²,

Ferdinand³

et al. 2020

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As climate change increasingly affects agriculture around the world, reliable, timely, and targeted information about weather and climate conditions is becoming an ever more urgent requirement for adaptation decision-making. This paper considers how transformative adaptation – long-term, systemic change to fundamental aspects of systems in response to or anticipation of severe climate change impacts - could be accelerated by enhancing climate services and how they are applied. The paper explores how components of climate services – defined as systems to develop and provide climate information to meet users’ needs - could be enhanced for building and implementing transformative pathways. It looks at current challenges and opportunities in climate service design and suggests how different types of information and data can be used to better integrate climate services into adaptation and development plans for systemic change. The paper concludes by providing recommendations for researchers, policymakers, and adaptation funding entities.

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Section: Integrating Enhanced Cs Into Adaptation and Development Plansmentioning

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Applying Climate Services to Transformative Adaptation in Agriculture

Ashley¹,

Carter²,

Ferdinand³

et al. 2020

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“…The differences in the opinions on the application of ICTs for the delivery of CIS for smallholder farmers may be attributed to the relatively underdeveloped CIS sector in Africa (Graham et al 2015;Hansen et al 2019). This can also be attributed to the fact that studies on CIS use among smallholder farmers in Africa are often framed under themes, such as gender, accessibility, local content development, and local knowledge, while ICTs are mostly treated as sub-themes.…”

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Digital Platforms in Climate Information Service Delivery for Farming in Ghana

Sarku

Appiah

Adiku

et al. 2021

African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

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Phone-based applications, Internet connectivity, and big data are enabling climate change adaptations. From ICT for development and agriculture perspectives, great interest exists in how digital platforms support climate information provision for smallholder farmers in Africa. The vast majority of these platforms both private and public are for delivering climate information services and for data collection. The sheer number of digital platforms in the climate information sector has created a complex information landscape for potential information users, with platforms differing in information type, technology, geographic coverage, and financing structures and infrastructure. This chapter mapped the existing climate information services and examined their impact on policy and practices in smallholder farming development in Africa, with a focus on Ghana. Specifically, the chapter provides highlights of digital platforms available to smallholder farmers and agricultural extension agents, analyzes the public and/or private governance arrangements that underpin the implementation of digital climate information delivery, and assesses the potential of these platforms in scaling up the use of climate information. The chapter contributes to understanding the dynamics of climate information delivery with digital tools in Africa, and suggests a future research agenda.

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“…However, extreme precipitation events are likely to cause destructive flooding and landslides; therefore, to minimize loss of life and livelihoods, it is important to develop robust forecasting systems for various timescales (Ongoma et al ., 2018). In Equatorial Africa (defined here as 15°S–15°N, 0°–51°E), reliability of short‐term forecasts depends on experts' ability to extrapolate the prevailing conditions, as well as interpretation of forecast maps from global forecast centres (Graham et al ., 2015). However, while forecast model guidance from convection permitting models has become an additional tool to support forecasting over EEA (e.g., Woodhams et al ., 2018), a similar tool for WEA is less common.…”

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The observed synoptic scale precipitation relationship between Western Equatorial Africa and Eastern Equatorial Africa

Ayesiga

Holloway

Williams

et al. 2020

Intl Journal of Climatology

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An improvement to subseasonal (i.e., days to weeks) rainfall prediction across Equatorial Africa is an important area of current research. This is because most countries in this region are highly dependent on rain-fed agriculture, and so millions of livelihoods are at risk in the event of an unexpected poor harvest. This study examines 16 years of daily precipitation anomalies to investigate the relationship in precipitation between Western Equatorial Africa (WEA) and Eastern Equatorial Africa (EEA). Using lead/lag correlation and spatio-temporal correlation patterns over various sub-regions, a synoptic-scale relationship in precipitation is presented between WEA and EEA, in which precipitation over EEA lags precipitation over WEA by 1-2 days. In addition, central WEA and sub-regions in South Sudan display a synoptic-timescale precipitation contrast, suggesting a weak precipitation dipole. Consistent with the known heterogeneity characteristic of Equatorial Africa's precipitation, our findings suggest that the 1-2 days precipitation relationship is dependent upon the sub-region under investigation. Furthermore, our results indicate a coherent synoptic-timescale eastward/northeastward propagating signal with a speed of approximately 12 m/s. Composite and correlation analyses of precipitation anomalies and a novel equatorial wave dataset show an apparent connection between eastward/northeastward propagating wet anomalies and Kelvin wave lower-tropospheric convergence. This suggests that Convectively Coupled Kelvin Waves (CCKWs) play a role in modulating the 1-2 days convection and precipitation propagation between WEA and EEA. These results imply that monitoring the propagation characteristics of CCKWs may be important in synoptic-timescale forecasting over Equatorial Africa.

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Scoping, options analysis and design of a ‘Climate Information and Services Programme’ for Africa (CIASA): Literature review

Cited by 7 publications

References 96 publications

Applying Climate Services to Transformative Adaptation in Agriculture

Applying Climate Services to Transformative Adaptation in Agriculture

Digital Platforms in Climate Information Service Delivery for Farming in Ghana

The observed synoptic scale precipitation relationship between Western Equatorial Africa and Eastern Equatorial Africa

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