icts and agro-met: ctas experience inter-agency consultation meeting on user interface platform for...
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ICTs and agro-met: CTA’s experienceInter-agency consultation meeting on User Interface Platform for Agriculture, Food security and water sectors of the global frameworks for climate services. 26-28 September Rome
ICTs and agro-met: CTA’s experienceInter-agency consultation meeting on User Interface Platform for Agriculture, Food security and water sectors of the global frameworks for climate services. 26-28 September Rome
Decision-making
There are difficulties in the transmission and communication of climate and weather information to the local level
Knowledge is not the only basis for decision making
Other factors include social networks, local loyalties, cultural values, intuition, beliefs, thrust, …
Traditional predictive capacity may be weakened or invalidated by rapid climate change or significant alterations of ecosystems
Issues
Decision-making
How to make climate and weather information useful and relevant for vulnerable communities?
How to create intercultural platforms leading to informed decision making?
How to build on the local understanding of probability and adaptation in the context of climate forecasting and to develop mechanisms for communication and processing of information adapted to the need of users.
Challenges
The relevance of the scale
Local agro-climatic phenomena and pattern influence decisions making processes by resource users
Scientists share information at global, regional and national scales
How can participatory ICTs help local people document and express their traditional ecological knowledge ?
Change from within ...
Climate change adaptation
Small Island Developing States
Building the Resilience of Communities and their Ecosystems to the Impacts of Climate Change in the Pacific
Photo credits: J. Leon and James Hardcastle (TNC)
Understanding the recipient
Genuine community-based processes enriched by external inputs help raise awareness and broaden the frame of reference
Inputs from users could support the development of user-oriented climate information and prediction services
Participatory GIS is increasingly used in SIDS in climate change adaptation and risk management
CTA contribution
Participatory Spatial Information Management and Communication
Training Kit (2010) (En & Es)
DVD and online http://pgis-tk.cta.int
1000 copies recently acquired by UNDP GEF-SGP for distribution to national offices
CTA contribution
Information dissemination
CTA gateways
M-applications
CTA gateways
Community information centres / telecentres
Rural Radio Programmes
Web 2.0 for development
On-going initiatives
Developing a Communications Strategy for weather and climate information for Caribbean farmers (2011)
Influencing regional policy processes in Climate Change Adaptation through the merger of African pastoralist traditional knowledge and meteorological science (2011-2012)
Learning event at CoP17 ARDD - Building on traditional knowledge and climate science to contribute to sound climate change adaptation policies: the case of M’Bororo-Fulani people in Chad.
