Stimulating small-scale farmer innovation and adaptation with Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA): Lessons from successful implementation in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and South Asia

Clarkson, Graham; Dorward, Peter; Poskitt, Sam; Stern, R. D.; Nyirongo, Dominic; Fara, Katiuscia; Gathenya, John Mwangi; Staub, Caroline G.; Trotman, Adrian; Nsengiyumva, Gloriose; Torgbor, Francis; Giraldo, Diana

doi:10.1016/j.cliser.2022.100298

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“…Skill training brings the "information effect", which is the most effective way to overcome farmers' information constraints. Skill training provides farmers with options to change their lifestyles and production conditions, while it provides opportunities for farmers to acquire and learn new ideas and skills (Clarkson et al, 2022). In practice, the academic institution will provide pre-service training to the newly appointed ecological custodians, to promote the better performance of their duties and responsibilities through the explanation of environmental protection laws and regulations, and patrol duties.…”

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The effect of participation in ecological public welfare positions on farmers' household income composition and the internal mechanism

Shi

Pang

et al. 2023

Journal of Cleaner Production

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The effect of participation in ecological public welfare positions on farmers' household income composition and the internal mechanism

Shi

Pang

et al. 2023

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…48 However, the scalability and nancial sustainability of farmer-led innovations are primary concerns. 49 The verication and validation processes involve a collaboration among the local people, farmers, stakeholders and concerned scientists. The approach allows improvements in innovations as well as reducing the gap between knowledge and practice.…”

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Digitalization of the agro-food sector for achieving sustainable development goals: a review

Sridhar,

Ponnuchamy,

Kumar

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Sustainable Food Technol.

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“…PSP accounts for the uncertainty of seasonal forecasts by discussing options that would be appropriate for each of the forecast tercile categories. Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA), developed by the University of Reading, combines location-specific climate information with participatory activities including resource mapping, activity calendars and budgeting activities to support farmers to improve crop, livestock and livelihood decisions (Clarkson et al, 2022). It emphasizes using historical analyses to adapt the farming and livelihood system to the local climate, and includes a seasonal forecast workshop process based on tercile forecasts.…”

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Flexible forecast presentation overcomes longstanding obstacles to using probabilistic seasonal forecasts

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We describe an innovative forecast presentation that aims to overcome obstacles to using seasonal climate forecasts for decision making, trace factors that influenced how seasonal forecast conventions have evolved, and describe a workshop process for training and supporting farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to use probabilistic seasonal forecasts. Mainstreaming seasonal climate forecasts through Regional Climate Outlook Forums (RCOFs) was an important milestone in the development of climate services. Most RCOFs and National Meteorological Services (NMS) adopted a subjective process to arrive at a consensus among different sources of prediction, and express the forecast as probabilities that rainfall in the upcoming season will fall in “below-normal,” “normal” or “above-normal” historical tercile categories. The Flexible Forecast is an online presentation that rectifies the main criticisms of the tercile convention by presenting downscaled forecasts as full probability distributions in probability-of-exceedance format along with the historical climate distribution. A map view provides seasonal forecast quantities, anomalies, or probabilities of experiencing above or below a user-selected threshold in amount or percentile, at the spatial resolution of the underlying gridded data (typically 4 to 5 km). We discuss factors that contributed to the persistence of the tercile convention, and milestones that paved the way to adopting seasonal forecast methods and formats that better align with user needs. The experience of adopting the new flexible forecast presentation regionally and at a national level in Eastern Africa illustrates the challenges and how they can be overcome. We also describe a seasonal forecast training and planning workshop process that has been piloted with smallholder farmers in several African countries. Beginning with participants' collective memory of past seasonal climate variations, the process leads them incrementally to understand the forecast presented in probability-of-exceedance format, and apply it to their seasonal planning decisions.

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Stimulating small-scale farmer innovation and adaptation with Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA): Lessons from successful implementation in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and South Asia

Cited by 16 publications

References 9 publications

The effect of participation in ecological public welfare positions on farmers' household income composition and the internal mechanism

The effect of participation in ecological public welfare positions on farmers' household income composition and the internal mechanism

Digitalization of the agro-food sector for achieving sustainable development goals: a review

Flexible forecast presentation overcomes longstanding obstacles to using probabilistic seasonal forecasts

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