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