Understanding and predicting Ethiopia’s complex climate at multiple
scales with enough detail and certainty to make critical food-security
decisions at local levels requires timely, quality assured weather,
climate and agricultural data at a high spatial and temporal resolution.
The Enhancing Nat...
Jay, A.
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Fiondella, Francesco
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Hansen, James
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Coffey, Kevin
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[New Climate Data Builds Agricultural Resilience in a Changing Climate]
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New Climate Data Builds Agricultural Resilience in a Changing Climate
We evaluated 3,046 farmers spread across the country’s districts to establish baseline about climate information and climate change, in September 2016. This Info Note shares insights into the status and needs for climate services in Rwanda at the time of this survey.
Coulibaly, Jeanne Y.
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Birachi, Eliud Abucheli
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Kagabo, Desire M.
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Mutua, Mercy
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Hansen, James
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[Climate services for agriculture in Rwanda: What farmers know about climate information services in Rwanda]
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Climate services for agriculture in Rwanda: What farmers know about climate information services in Rwanda
Drought is of global concern for society but it originates as a local problem. It has a significant impact on water quantity and quality and influences food, water, and energy security. The consequences of drought vary in space and time, from the local scale (e.g. county level) to regional scale ...
Mishra AK
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Ines AVM
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Das, NN
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Khedun CP
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Singh VP
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Sivakumar B
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Hansen, James
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[Anatomy of a local-scale drought: Application of assimilated remote sensing products, crop model, and statistical methods to an agricultural drought study]
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Anatomy of a local-scale drought: Application of assimilated remote sensing products, crop model, and statistical methods to an agricultural drought study
Throughout at least the past several centuries, El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has played a significant role in human response to climate. Over time, increased attention on ENSO has led to a better understanding of both the physical mechanisms, and the environmental and societal consequences...
Zebiak, Stephen E.
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Orlove B
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Vaughan, Catherine
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Muñoz, A.G.
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Hansen, James
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Troy T
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Thomson M
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Lustig A
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Garvin S
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[Investigating El Niño-Southern Oscillation and society relationships]
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Investigating El Niño-Southern Oscillation and society relationships
This paper provides a historical overview of the development and mainstreaming of global agendas on climate risk management and climate services from the vantage point of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), and present two examples that illustrate how efforts to ma...
Hansen, James
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Zebiak, Stephen E.
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Coffey, Kevin
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[Shaping global agendas on climate risk management and climate services: an IRI perspective]
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Shaping global agendas on climate risk management and climate services: an IRI perspective
Many opportunities to improve agricultural resilience to a variable and changing climate depend on access to high-quality local climate records and are constrained by data gaps. Addressing data quality of meteorological station observations. The ENACTS approach builds capacity of a National Mete...
Dinku, Tufa
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Hansen, James
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Rose, Alison
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Damen, Beau
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Sheinkman, Michael
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[Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) approach to support climate resilience in agriculture.]
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Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) approach to support climate resilience in agriculture.
Access to accurate and useful climate-related information is a prerequisite for smallholder farmers to use and benefit from climate services with respect to both agricultural and livelihood decision-making. Whether or not farmers access particular climate-related information products is determine...
Gumucio, Tatiana
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Hansen, James
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Huyer, Sophia
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Huysen, Tiff van
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Schwager, Saroja
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[Identifying Pathways for More Gender-Sensitive Communication Channels in Climate Services]
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Identifying Pathways for More Gender-Sensitive Communication Channels in Climate Services
Decision-relevant information on the past climate, recent trends, likely future trajectories, anomalies and associated impacts is a prerequisite for decision-making at different levels. Unfortunately, climate information is often not available or, where it does exist, is inaccessible to those tha...
Dinku, Tufa
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Thomson, Madeleine C.
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Cousin, Remi
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Corral, John del
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Ceccato, Pietro
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Hansen, James
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Connor, Stephen J.
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[Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) for development in Africa]
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Enhancing National Climate Services (ENACTS) for development in Africa
Agriculture and food security are key sectors for intervention under climate change. Agricultural production is highly vulnerable even to 2C (lowend) predictions for global mean temperatures in 2100, with major implications for rural poverty and for both rural and urban food security. Agriculture...
Vermeulen, Sonja J.
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Aggarwal, Pramod K.
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Ainslie, A.
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Angelone, C.
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Campbell, Bruce M.
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Challinor, Andrew J.
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Hansen, James
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Ingram, J.S.I.
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Jarvis, Andy
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Kristjanson, Patricia M.
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Lau, Charlotte
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Thornton, Philip K.
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Wollenberg, Eva K.
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[Agriculture, food security and climate change: Outlook for knowledge, tools and action]
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Agriculture, food security and climate change: Outlook for knowledge, tools and action
Smallholder farmers in Africa are especially vulnerable to climate fluctuations and weather
extremes, and are expected to suffer disproportionately from climate change. Climate services
empower the poor particularly in climate-sensitive developing countries such as the ones in
Africa, and allow t...
Tesfaye, Abonesh
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Hansen, James
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Radeny, Maren A.O.
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Solomon, Dawit
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[Estimating the economic benefits of alternative options for investing in agricultural climate services in Africa: A review of methodologies]
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Estimating the economic benefits of alternative options for investing in agricultural climate services in Africa: A review of methodologies