Climate services can support african farmers' context-specific adaptation needs at scale

JW Hansen, C Vaughan, DM Kagabo… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
We consider the question of what is needed for climate services to support sub-Saharan
African farmers' adaptation needs at the scale of the climate challenge. Consistent with an …

Translating climate forecasts into agricultural terms: advances and challenges

JW Hansen, A Challinor, A Ines, T Wheeler, V Moron - Climate research, 2006 - int-res.com
Seasonal climate prediction offers the potential to anticipate variations in crop production
early enough to adjust critical decisions. Until recently, interest in exploiting seasonal …

The DSSAT crop** system model

JW Jones, G Hoogenboom, CH Porter, KJ Boote… - European journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
The decision support system for agrotechnology transfer (DSSAT) has been in use for the
last 15 years by researchers worldwide. This package incorporates models of 16 different …

Adaptive capacity and human cognition: the process of individual adaptation to climate change

T Grothmann, A Patt - Global environmental change, 2005 - Elsevier
Adaptation has emerged as an important area of research and assessment among climate
change scientists. Most scholarly work has identified resource constraints as being the most …

Review of seasonal climate forecasting for agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa

JW Hansen, SJ Mason, L Sun, A Tall - Experimental agriculture, 2011 - cambridge.org
We review the use and value of seasonal climate forecasting for agriculture in sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA), with a view to understanding and exploiting opportunities to realize more of its …

Cereal yield forecasting with satellite drought-based indices, weather data and regional climate indices using machine learning in Morocco

EH Bouras, L Jarlan, S Er-Raki, R Balaghi, A Amazirh… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Accurate seasonal forecasting of cereal yields is an important decision support tool for
countries, such as Morocco, that are not self-sufficient in order to predict, as early as …

Perceptions of climate risk in Mozambique: implications for the success of adaptation strategies

AG Patt, D Schröter - Global environmental change, 2008 - Elsevier
Policies to promote adaptation climate risks often rely on the willing cooperation of the
intended beneficiaries. If these beneficiaries disagree with policy makers and program …

Seasonal and inter-annual climate forecasting: the new tool for increasing preparedness to climate variability and change in agricultural planning and operations

H Meinke, RC Stone - Climatic change, 2005 - Springer
Climate variability and change affects individuals and societies. Within agricultural systems,
seasonal climate forecasting can increase preparedness and lead to better social, economic …

Ethnographic and participatory approaches to research on farmers' responses to climate predictions

C Roncoli - Climate research, 2006 - int-res.com
This article synthesizes the state of the art in the application of ethnographic and
participatory methods in climate application research. The review focuses on 2 aspects:(1) …

Effects of seasonal climate forecasts and participatory workshops among subsistence farmers in Zimbabwe

A Patt, P Suarez, C Gwata - Proceedings of the National …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Improvements in the ability to model El Niño and other large-scale interannual climate
variations have allowed for the development of seasonal climate forecasts, predicting rainfall …