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Weather and Climate Information Services for Agriculture and Food Security: FAO’s work in the context of new Strategic Objectives (SOs) Selvaraju Ramasamy FAO, Rome

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Page 1: Weather and Climate Information Services for Agriculture and Food

Weather and Climate Information Services for 

Agriculture and Food Security:FAO’s work in the context of new 

Strategic Objectives (SOs)

Selvaraju Ramasamy

FAO, Rome

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Make agriculture, forestry and fisheries more productive and sustainable   promote evidence‐based policies and practices to support highly productive agricultural sectors (crops, livestock, forestry and fisheries), while ensuring that the natural resource base does not suffer in the process.

Help eliminate hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition contribute to the eradication of hunger by facilitating policies and political commitments to support food security

Enable inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systemshelp to build safe and efficient food systems that support smallholder agriculture and reduce poverty and hunger in rural areas.

Increase the resilience of livelihoods to disastershelp countries to prepare for natural and human‐caused disasters by reducing their risk and enhancing the resilience of their food and agricultural systems.

Reduce rural povertyhelp the rural poor gain access to the resources and services they need –including rural employment and social protection – to forge a path out of poverty.

THE FAO STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES

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FAO GAEZ and FAO GeoNetwork FAO GAEZ data portal provides a platform for generation of reliable geospatial information at global, regional and national levels FAO GeoNetwork www.fao.org/geonetwork provides thousands of data and metadata products to the users community

GAEZ fact sheet: www.fao.org/nr/gaez THEMES: 5 thematic areas (> 300,000 global datasets at mainly 5 arc‐minutes, also core layers at 30 arc‐seconds) CROPS: 11 crop groups, 49 cropsWATER SUPPLY: 5 water supply types (rain‐fed, irrigation, gravity, sprinkler, drip) INPUT LEVELS: High, Intermediate, Low, Mixed TIME PERIOD: Agro‐Climate and Agro‐ecological assessments: Historical 1961‐2000, 30 year average (1961‐1990) and Future, 2020s, 2050s, 2080s)

Contacts: John Latham and Renato Cumani, FAO Land and Water

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GAEZ Data Portal

Contacts: John Latham and Renato Cumani, FAO Land and Water

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Tools and Methods for analysis and adaptation planning

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Global Information and Early Warning Systems on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS)

Contact: [email protected]

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Main agricultural drought hot spots in 2011 United States, Mexico and the Horn of Africa.  

• Satellite rainfall estimates and remote sensing techniques offer significant opportunities for protecting agricultural livelihoods and better responding to food‐related emergencies.

• Agriculture Stress Index System (ASIS) assess the severity (intensity, duration and spatial extent) of the agricultural drought

• ASIS works at global scale based on 10‐day satellite data of vegetation and land surface temperature from the METOP‐AVHRR sensor at 1 km resolution 

Strengthening Food Security Information Systems

http://www.fao.org/climatechange/asis/en/Contact: Oscar Rojas, Paul Racionzer and Luca Russo

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ClimAfrica: Climate Change Projections for Sub‐Saharan Africa Medium Term (10 years) Warning Systems (MTWS)

Exposure

Sensitivity

Adaptive capacity

Climate Surfaces Topographic Constraints Agricultural Resources Availability

Soil Constraints Main Resource Constraints 

Per‐capita Resource Availability 

Areas of concern and hotspots

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Desert Locust Early Warning Systems

• a network of regular surveillance, rapid transmission of data from the field to decision makers, geo-referenced field data and summaries, warning and other outputs are the key components of desert locust early warning systems

•The FAO Emergency Prevention System (EMPRES) has the mandate to address prevention and early warning across the entire food chain. 

Early Warning Systems for Pests and Diseases

http://www.fao.org/foodchain/empres‐prevention‐and‐early‐warning/en/

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Food Security Analysis and Decision Making

• The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is an innovative tool for improving food security analysis and decision-making.

• It is a standardized scale that integrates food security, nutrition and livelihood information into a clear statement about the nature and severity of food insecurity and implications for strategic response.

• The IPC was originally developed by FAO’s Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) and is now being used in over 25 countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia

• Climate information provides the key lead time to address emergency response

http://www.ipcinfo.org/

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• Combining climate data and local knowledge offers evidence‐based information for climate risk management and adaptation planning

• Model‐based analysis and mapping of Impacts of climate change provides quantitative values for better planning of adaptation in agriculture

Integrated analysis of exposure, vulnerability, adaptive capacity, risks and impacts for adaptation planning

AMICAF: www.fao.org/climatechange/amicaf

http://www.fao.org/climatechange/76991/en/

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• Establishing User Interface Platforms (UIPs)

• Enabling Partnerships between meteorological services and agricultural service providers at decentralized levels

• Assessing the needs of service providers and end users

• Facilitate integration of gender perspectives into weather and climate information services – Farmer field schools

• Ensuring equitable access to information –E.g. farming communities in Potosi and Beni regions of Bolivia are highly vulnerable to climate risks, climate information is crucial to implement risk reduction plans that protect the livelihood activities of these farmers

Localized Weather and Climate Information Services for Agriculture and Food Security

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Enabling mechanisms to sustain weather and climate information services

• Integration of climate information services into plans and strategies

• Support to prioritise climate services and integrate them into development plans, risk management plans and strategic programmes (E.g. Jamaica ADRM Plan)

• Development of agrometeorology strategy for the Ministries of Agriculture (E.g. Cambodia)

• Capacity Development

• Support to strengthen technical expertise to prepare impact outlooks and response options, and to communicate to the farmers at the intermediary level (E.g. South Africa)

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Support to strengthen agrometeorologicalobservation networks in major production areas

• FAOs technical support to strengthen agrometeorological monitoring is often linked to emergency response projects

• Up‐gradation of observation networks in major production areas

• This is being done jointly with National Meteorological Services and integrated into national level networks

• FAO supports national level integration of agrometeorological observation networks (E.g. Vietnam)

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“FAO’s support is only a part of the bigger picture, each one of us has different contributions to give. I am a firm believer that 

we achieve better results by working together”

José Graziano da SilvaDirector‐General, UN Food and Agriculture Organization

During the inaugural session of the WMO extraordinary Congress (2012) http://www.wmo.int/pages/resources/multimedia/dg_fao_wmocgext012_en.html