Pub Date : 2024-11-30DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100530
Nicola Golding , Keith Lambkin , Louise Wilson , Rozemien De Troch , Andreas Marc Fischer , Hans Olav Hygen , Angela Michiko Hama , Anita Verpe Dyrrdal , Ella Jamsin , Piet Termonia , Christopher Hewitt
Many countries are actively developing a National Framework for Climate Services (NFCS), driven by a need for better coordination of climate services to support decision making, mandatory climate adaptation and financial reporting, and the assessment of the quality of climate services including their underlying data. A group of five European countries (UK, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland and Norway) has formed an informal peer-group to support, challenge, and share learning throughout the process of developing and evolving their NFCSs. This perspective article gathers these experiences to distil common themes and challenges as well as to identify unique characteristics and benefits of each country’s experience on their NFCS implementation. While this article focuses on the experiences and practical learning within Europe, the benefit of establishing an NFCS is global, and many of the challenges and learnings presented here will be relevant anywhere in the world.
It is the experience of this group that peer support has accelerated and enhanced the NFCS implementation process, as well as provided a forum for exchange on how to maintain and evolve an operational NFCS. Based on this experience, we propose an additional step as part of the WMO’s ‘Step-by-step Guidelines for Establishing a National Framework for Climate Services’ (WMO, 2018) to support countries to maintain and evolve their operational frameworks. Additionally, we recommend regional or global peer support on this framework development process should be sought, encouraged and facilitated.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-23DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100526
Desire M. Kagabo , Livingstone Byandaga , Patrick Gatsinzi , Patrick Mvuyibwami , Yvonne U. Munyangeri , Nasson Ntwari , Mathieu Ouedraogo
There is a general agreement among scholars that bundling Climate Information Services (CIS), Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), and other agricultural products and services can positively impact agriculture. However, many questions still need to be answered regarding how the bundling can be achieved through scalable and farmer-centric CIS-CSA bundled business models. This study narrowed the knowledge gap by revealing 1) how CIS, CSA, and other agricultural products and services may be bundled to support sustainable agriculture, 2) what types of CIS-CSA bundled business models are successfully reaching and benefiting farmers and entrepreneurs, and 3) proposing an evaluation framework for assessing CIS-CSA bundled business models ready for scaling. Drawing on the synthesis analysis of available relevant publications, we devised a 1–5 scale evaluation framework based on nine scaling readiness indicators—technology, impact, bundling, infrastructure, relevance, evidence, barriers, sustainability, and value addition—to assign scalability scores to 29 business cases with bundled CIS-CSA products and services across Africa and Asia. Eleven CIS-CSA bundled business models with publicly available quantitative scaling readiness data (financial capacity, the number of customers, customer categories, and the number of beneficiaries) were used to quantitatively model how different CIS-CSA products and services bundling strategies, the revenue stream structure of a CIS-CSA business, and the structure of a CIS-CSA business’s stakeholder network (the diversity of its stakeholders) affect its scaling readiness. Based on the scaling readiness evaluation framework, of the 29 identified CIS-CSA bundled business cases, 12 were ready for scaling. The quantitative analysis revealed that the type of a CIS-CSA model significantly determines its scalability— for example, a government-to-donor-to-business-to-consumer (G2D2B2C) CIS-CSA bundled business model would have 10 million USD more invested capital than a government-to-business-to-consumer (G2B2C) bundled business model type. Additionally, the G2D2B2C bundled business model type would serve 5 million farmers and three customer categories and gain ten partners more than the G2B2C. The finding also suggests that multi-stakeholder CIS-CSA business models, which provide a more diverse package of CIS-CSA products and services and have many revenue sources, have the potential to benefit all categories of farmers and entrepreneurs. This study reveals a reason for optimism about the future of agriculture; it suggests that scalable bundled CIS-CSA products and services can contribute significantly to attaining climate resilience and food security.
{"title":"Scalingclimate information services and climate smart agriculture through bundled business models","authors":"Desire M. Kagabo , Livingstone Byandaga , Patrick Gatsinzi , Patrick Mvuyibwami , Yvonne U. Munyangeri , Nasson Ntwari , Mathieu Ouedraogo","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100526","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100526","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>There is a general agreement among scholars that bundling Climate Information Services (CIS), Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), and other agricultural products and services can positively impact agriculture. However, many questions still need to be answered regarding how the bundling can be achieved through scalable and farmer-centric CIS-CSA bundled business models. This study narrowed the knowledge gap by revealing 1) how CIS, CSA, and other agricultural products and services may be bundled to support sustainable agriculture, 2) what types of CIS-CSA bundled business models are successfully reaching and benefiting farmers and entrepreneurs, and 3) proposing an evaluation framework for assessing CIS-CSA bundled business models ready for scaling. Drawing on the synthesis analysis of available relevant publications, we devised a 1–5 scale evaluation framework based on nine scaling readiness indicators—<em>technology</em>, <em>impact</em>, <em>bundling</em>, <em>infrastructure</em>, <em>relevance</em>, <em>evidence</em>, <em>barriers</em>, <em>sustainability</em>, and <em>value addition</em>—to assign scalability scores to 29 business cases with bundled CIS-CSA products and services across Africa and Asia. Eleven CIS-CSA bundled business models with publicly available quantitative scaling readiness data (financial capacity, the number of customers, customer categories, and the number of beneficiaries) were used to quantitatively model how different CIS-CSA products and services bundling strategies, the revenue stream structure of a CIS-CSA business, and the structure of a CIS-CSA business’s stakeholder network (the diversity of its stakeholders) affect its scaling readiness. Based on the scaling readiness evaluation framework, of the 29 identified CIS-CSA bundled business cases, 12 were ready for scaling. The quantitative analysis revealed that the type of a CIS-CSA model significantly determines its scalability— for example, a government-to-donor-to-business-to-consumer (G2D2B2C) CIS-CSA bundled business model would have 10 million USD more invested capital than a government-to-business-to-consumer (G2B2C) bundled business model type. Additionally, the G2D2B2C bundled business model type would serve 5 million farmers and three customer categories and gain ten partners more than the G2B2C. The finding also suggests that multi-stakeholder CIS-CSA business models, which provide a more diverse package of CIS-CSA products and services and have many revenue sources, have the potential to benefit all categories of farmers and entrepreneurs. This study reveals a reason for optimism about the future of agriculture; it suggests that scalable bundled CIS-CSA products and services can contribute significantly to attaining climate resilience and food security.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100526"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-22DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100528
Collins E. Appiah , William Quarmine , Charity Osei-Amponsah , Andrew E. Okem , Daniel B. Sarpong
The timely availability, access to, and utilisation of actionable climate information services (CIS) serve as an effective mechanism to address the impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Scholarly work from diverse contexts reveals that farmers’ social networks can be leveraged to promote access to CIS to mitigate climate risk. However, there is no synthesised information on the different insights that comprehensively demonstrate how social networks improve access to and utilisation of CIS among smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper employed a systematic literature review methodology to fill this knowledge gap. A stringent inclusion criterion was used to select 32 relevant peer-reviewed papers from an initial pool of 648 for analysis. Our study found farmers' social networks to effectively promote CIS access and utilisation among smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa. This was mainly as a result of the use of relatable local languages and the opportunity it provided for direct interaction during information flow. Smallholder farmers in big networks with stronger linkages, higher levels of participation, and a greater degree of trust, were identified to be more likely to utilise CIS to improve their livelihoods. Such farmers tend to have higher technical efficiency, productivity, and incomes. To harness social networks to scale up CIS access and utilisation, innovative platforms that can enhance social networking among farmers must be promoted and strengthened by agricultural development stakeholders.
{"title":"Improving smallholder farmers’ access to and utilization of climate information services in sub-Saharan Africa through social networks: A systematic review","authors":"Collins E. Appiah , William Quarmine , Charity Osei-Amponsah , Andrew E. Okem , Daniel B. Sarpong","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100528","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100528","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The timely availability, access to, and utilisation of actionable climate information services (CIS) serve as an effective mechanism to address the impacts of climate change on smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Scholarly work from diverse contexts reveals that farmers’ social networks can be leveraged to promote access to CIS to mitigate climate risk. However, there is no synthesised information on the different insights that comprehensively demonstrate how social networks improve access to and utilisation of CIS among smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper employed a systematic literature review methodology to fill this knowledge gap. A stringent inclusion criterion was used to select 32 relevant peer-reviewed papers from an initial pool of 648 for analysis. Our study found farmers' social networks to effectively promote CIS access and utilisation among smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa. This was mainly as a result of the use of relatable local languages and the opportunity it provided for direct interaction during information flow. Smallholder farmers in big networks with stronger linkages, higher levels of participation, and a greater degree of trust, were identified to be more likely to utilise CIS to improve their livelihoods. Such farmers tend to have higher technical efficiency, productivity, and incomes. To harness social networks to scale up CIS access and utilisation, innovative platforms that can enhance social networking among farmers must be promoted and strengthened by agricultural development stakeholders.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100528"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-13DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100524
Mohummed Shofi Ullah Mazumder
Efforts to reduce food insecurity must include building resilience in rural farmers to shocks. One way to achieve this is through climate-smart agriculture (CSA). This paper analyzes the impact of CSA on farmers’ livelihoods. Data were collected in two phases in 2010 and 2018 from a study (CSA practitioners) and control group (CSA non-practitioners) of climate-affected farmers (240 farmers in each group) using a quasi-experimental survey design considering all possible biases. Descriptive statistics, variance inflation factor analysis, multiple regression, path analysis, FE-IV, and propensity score matching models were applied. Practicing CSA technologies improved food security and the incomes of the farmers through increased agricultural productivity. The impact of CSA technologies differed based on farmers’ understanding of technologies, the time and amount of financial support, availability of extension staff, the provision of technical and other logistical support, and CSA practitioners’ experience, such as knowing how to enhance plant resilience. Specific policy interventions, including financing of CSA, would benefit rural farmers. CSA provides a path towards sustainable livelihood development and food security. These findings will be useful for policymakers, planners, administrators, and development workers.
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Pub Date : 2024-11-11DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100525
Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa , Osei Tawiah Frederick , Hamdiyah Alhassan , Otchere-Adu Nana Akua , Chelsea Naa Darkowaa Adu
This study examined the sources of climate information services (CIS), nature of CIS as well as impact of use of CIS on the welfare of smallholder cashew farmers. Using descriptive statistics for the sources, types and the nature of CIS, the study employed a combination of endogenous switching regression (ESR) and inverse probability weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA) in the impact analysis. From the results, we find that the main source of CIS used by farmers was radio. The farmers also responded that they received the climate information on time. In addition, we find that education, household size, climate disaster, farmer association, farm size, access to extension services, climate, and radio ownership had positive effects on the likelihood of using CIS. The results from the ESR model showed that use of CIS decreased assets, net farm income and yield even though it increased household dietary diversity (HDD). From the IPWRA model, we also find that users of CIS are more food insecure vis-à-vis non-users, a result which contradicts the aforementioned HDD results. The study highlights critical implications for agricultural economics, particularly in how smallholder cashew farmers access and use climate information services (CIS). Although CIS is meant to assist farmers in adapting to climate variability, this study reveals paradoxical outcomes, with users of CIS exhibiting lower asset values, net farm income, and yield, alongside greater food insecurity than non-users. These findings suggest that use of CIS alone, without adequate support and complementary resources, may not be sufficient to improve welfare.
{"title":"The impact of use of climate information services on smallholder welfare: Evidence from the hub of cashew production in Ghana","authors":"Camillus Abawiera Wongnaa , Osei Tawiah Frederick , Hamdiyah Alhassan , Otchere-Adu Nana Akua , Chelsea Naa Darkowaa Adu","doi":"10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100525","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100525","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examined the sources of climate information services (CIS), nature of CIS as well as impact of use of CIS on the welfare of smallholder cashew farmers. Using descriptive statistics for the sources, types and the nature of CIS, the study employed a combination of endogenous switching regression (ESR) and inverse probability weighted regression adjustment (IPWRA) in the impact analysis. From the results, we find that the main source of CIS used by farmers was radio. The farmers also responded that they received the climate information on time. In addition, we find that education, household size, climate disaster, farmer association, farm size, access to extension services, climate, and radio ownership had positive effects on the likelihood of using CIS. The results from the ESR model showed that use of CIS decreased assets, net farm income and yield even though it increased household dietary diversity (HDD). From the IPWRA model, we also find that users of CIS are more food insecure vis-à-vis non-users, a result which contradicts the aforementioned HDD results. The study highlights critical implications for agricultural economics, particularly in how smallholder cashew farmers access and use climate information services (CIS). Although CIS is meant to assist farmers in adapting to climate variability, this study reveals paradoxical outcomes, with users of CIS exhibiting lower asset values, net farm income, and yield, alongside greater food insecurity than non-users. These findings suggest that use of CIS alone, without adequate support and complementary resources, may not be sufficient to improve welfare.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51332,"journal":{"name":"Climate Services","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 100525"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142657184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-11-06DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100523
Peter Babyenda , Jane Kabubo-Mariara , Sule Odhiambo
Over the last one decade, most of the empirical studies on climate variability have largely concentrated on assessing the effect of climate variability on agriculture. Little attention has been given to the analysis of what factors determine the decision to adapt to climate variability and what impact does it has on welfare of the adapting households. This paper therefore, assesses the determinants of adaptation to climate variability and how it influences welfare of the farming households in Uganda. To achieve this, the study utilizes six waves of Uganda National Panel survey collected by Uganda Bureau of Statistics spanning over a period of 10 years from 2009 to 2019 and the switching regression model for empirical analysis. The findings indicate that adapting to climate variability is beneficial to adaptors as it safeguards welfare deterioration. On the other hand, presence of climate variability, age of the household head, the value of household assets, location, formal land ownership, having main occupation as agriculture and availability of extension services were identified as key determinants of the decision to adapt to climate variability among farming households in Uganda. These findings thus highlight the importance to have measures to improve adaptation process at the same time enhancing household welfare.
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Climate change is likely to affect both the productive and reproductive functions of Murrah buffaloes, the major milch breed of India. Hence, in the present study, weekly modules of Temperature Humidity Index (THI) based climate services were prepared and disseminated to the farmers of experimental villages of Haryana, a state of North-Western part of India through either WhatsApp, Text SMS, and Mobile Application. Difference-in-Difference (DiD), a quasi-experimental research design was used to study the impact of climate services on operational decision-making as well as the economic outcome of the farm. The findings of the study revealed that the climate services had a positive effect on the number of farmers adopting the practices like use of oil cakes, minerals, and feed additives in the animal diet. Treatment effect was found to be significant on quantity of oilcake (0.39, 0.45 and 0.51 kg/animal/day); concentrates during both summer (0.48, 0.56, 0.59 kg/animal/day) and in winter (0.35, 0.40 and 0.42 kg/animal/day); and mineral mixture (9.47, 12.34 and 13.08 gm/animal/day) in Text SMS, WhatsApp and MobileApp group, respectively. The treatment effect of climate services on economic outcome indicators such as summer milk yield was also found to be significant (0.38, 0.44, and 0.50 L/animal) from Text SMS, WhatsApp, and MobileApp, respectively. Overall, the benefit-to-cost ratio of climate services was found to be 1:1.8. Hence, the exclusive climate services developed for Murrah buffalo farmers were found to be an effective adaptive mechanism for helping vulnerable dairy farming to adapt to the climate of today and of the future.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-24DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100521
S.V. Greenham , E.J.S. Ferranti , S. Jones , J. Zhong , N. Grayson , S. Needle , W.J.F. Acton , A.R. MacKenzie , W.J. Bloss
The global climate is changing, and local authorities must respond to changing climate risk to protect citizens and the urban environment in which they live. This paper presents an open access approach to map climate risk and vulnerability using Birmingham, the UK’s second city as a case study. A Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment (CRVA) was co-created with Birmingham City Council to ensure the approach supports the organisation’s needs, now and in the future. Using Geographic Information System (GIS) software, eleven geospatial datasets expressing physical, environmental, and social variables were combined to characterise holistic climate risk and vulnerability relative to the city boundary, where the higher the score, the higher the combined climate risk and vulnerability of an area. The resulting map (i) transparently evidences climate impacts across the city and the underpinning drivers, (ii) supports the prioritisation of interventions for those areas most at risk or vulnerable to climate change, (iii) supports the implementation of more climate-resilient development, and (iv) can be managed by stakeholders going forward for monitoring and evaluation purposes. While there are inevitable limitations in what can be achieved with an open access approach, the current CRVA can be considered a ‘minimum viable product’ that can be developed and improved iteratively in climate adaptation planning cycles. Its results can feed into broader policy agendas, such as national adaptation plans, adaptation reporting, just transition, and biodiversity net gain.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-23DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100520
Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes , Asun Lera St Clair , Marina Baldissera Pacchetti , Paula Checchia , Joerg Cortekar , Judith E.M. Klostermann , Werner Krauß , Ángel G. Muñoz , Jaroslav Mysiak , Jorge Paz , Marta Terrado , Andreas Villwock , Mirjana Volarev , Saioa Zorita
Climate services are essential to support climate-sensitive decision making, enabling adaptation to climate change and variability, and mitigate the sources of anthropogenic climate change, while taking into account the values and contexts of those involved. The unregulated nature of climate services can lead to low market performance and lack of quality assurance. Best practices, guidance, and standards serve as a form of governance, ensuring quality, legitimacy, and relevance of climate services. The Climateurope2 project (www.climateurope2.eu) addresses this gap by engaging and supporting an equitable and diverse community of climate services to provide recommendations for their standardisation. Four components of climate services are identified (the decision context, the ecosystem of actors and co-production processes, the multiple knowledge systems involved, and the delivery and evaluation of these services) to facilitate analysis. This has resulted in the identification of nine key messages summarising the susceptibility for the climate services standardisation. The recommendations are shared with relevant standardisation bodies and actors as well as with climate services stakeholders and providers.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-02DOI: 10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100515
Victor M Rodríguez-Moreno , Aldo Rafael Martínez-Sifuentes , Juan Estrada-Ávalos , Pedro Félix-Valencia , Ramón Trucíos-Caciano , César Valenzuela-Solano
The Chihuahuan Desert is a distinctive and ecologically diverse region that is particularly susceptible to climate change. To effectively characterize the ecosystem services in this area, access to extensive geospatial data is crucial. Web services have emerged as a powerful solution for querying and downloading large volumes of climate geospatial data. Specifically, the Chihuahuan Desert Web Service (ChDWS) has been developed to streamline access to climate data. This service features an intuitive interface that enables researchers and decision-makers to efficiently query and download substantial datasets related to the region’s climate. With an internet connection, users can access the ChDWS more efficiently and conveniently from anywhere. This enhances the ability of researchers and decision-makers to obtain the data necessary for their studies and assessments. Web services, such as the ChDWS, offer significant advantages in querying and bulk downloading large climate geospatial datasets. They facilitate access to essential data for climate research and assessments, ultimately aiding in the better understanding and management of climate change impacts in the Chihuahuan Desert. By supporting bulk downloads in CSV and GeoTiff formats, web services like the ChDWS streamline data management and facilitate a better understanding and management of climate change impacts in the Chihuahuan Desert.
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