A powerful partnership delivering climate information services to Kenya's smallholder farmers

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  • Опубліковано 9 гру 2024
  • Featured partners: Kenya Meteorological Department (KMD) and the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)
    In 2023, the AICCRA team in Kenya
    supported KALRO in
    delivering climate agro advisories
    to 471,000
    farmers, 60 percent of whom
    are women, primarily via
    SMS and radio.
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    AICCRA Kenya is integrating climate and
    agricultural data to provide targeted
    digital advisories that support climate
    risk reduction. A significant initiative
    is the creation of a national-scale
    AgDataHub, jointly owned by government
    meteorological and agricultural
    departments.
    The hub amalgamates data from diverse sources at
    varying spatial and temporal resolutions, localizing
    this data and analytics to Kenyan administrative
    levels. Users can access this integrated data through
    web-based dashboards, which present crucial agrometeorological information for crafting weather informed
    agro-advisories, such as optimal planting
    times and suitable crop varieties based on historical
    rainfall patterns. The hub also serves as a valuable resource for
    both public and private sector extension agents.
    They can interactively use maps or drop-down
    menus to drill down to specific wards, accessing
    information about past and current weather
    conditions, as well as future forecasts.
    This easy
    access and embedded analytics can significantly
    lower the costs and efforts required to provide
    precise, data-driven advisories for crops and
    livestock. Additionally, the hub is being institutionalized and
    integrated with the existing Kenya Agricultural
    Observatory Platform (KAOP), established in 2017
    under the World Bank-funded KCSAP project.
    Originally a collaborative effort of the KALRO and KMD, the integration with the
    AgDataHub has significantly enhanced KAOP’s
    capabilities and user experience by improving
    access to various types of weather forecasts and
    agricultural datasets, increasing the platform’s
    value to farmers and other stakeholders.
    Recent enhancements to KAOP by AICCRA have
    expanded the platform’s reach.
    Find out more at aiccra.cgiar.org/regions/kenya

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