Stimulating small-scale farmer innovation and adaptation with Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA): Lessons from successful implementation in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and South Asia
Stimulating small-scale farmer innovation and adaptation with Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA): Lessons from successful implementation in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean and South Asia
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通过参与式农业综合气候服务（PICSA）刺激小规模农民创新和适应：非洲、拉丁美洲、加勒比和南亚成功实施的经验教训
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10.1016/j.cliser.2022.100298
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发表时间：
2022
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3.2
通讯作者：
Diana C. Giraldo
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作者：
Graham J. J. Clarkson;P. Dorward;S. Poskitt;R. D. Stern;Dominic Nyirongo;K. Fara;J. Gathenya;Caroline G. Staub;Adrian R Trotman;Gloriose Nsengiyumva;F. Torgbor;Diana C. Giraldo
如何科普气候多变性和适应气候变化是全球小农面临的主要挑战。在低收入国家，农民通常很少得到与当地有关的天气或气候信息。虽然气候服务有助于增加气候信息的提供和获取，但这很少能对农民的决策、对气候变异性和变化的适应和复原力产生预期影响。这是由于缺乏与气候信息的目标用户的接触，以及在开发和提供气候服务方面采取的自上而下的办法未能充分考虑和考虑到农民的具体要求。40.农业示范性综合气候服务是一种为支持和增强农民决策能力而制定的办法。23个国家的20多万农民接受了培训，本文提供了7个国家评估的证据，其中大多数（87%; n = 4，299）已经在作物，牲畜和/或生计企业方面做出了有益的改变。这一办法加强了通过审议范围、量身定制和能力建设活动以及推广和气象服务支持农民的关键机构。它受到使用者的欢迎，并正在被纳入政策和培训课程。这一方法取得成功的主要原因包括必须支持农民作为决策者，并使他们能够将相对复杂的天气和气候信息与自己的情况联系起来。未来的主要考虑因素包括确保可持续性和进一步扩展以及保持质量。
How to cope with climate variability and adapt to climate change are key challenges for smallholder farmers globally. In low-income countries, farmers have typically received little, if any locally relevant weather or climate information. Although climate services have contributed to increased availability and accessibility of climate information, this has rarely achieved the desired impacts for farmers’ decision-making, adaptation and resilience to climate variability and change. This has been attributed to a lack of engagement with intended users of climate information and a top-down approach to development and delivery of climate services that fails to adequately consider and account for farmers’ context-specific requirements. Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) is an approach that was developed to support and empower farmers in their decision-making processes. More than 200,000 farmers have been trained in 23 countries and this paper presents evidence from evaluations in 7 countries including that most (87%; n = 4,299) have made beneficial changes in their crops, livestock and/or livelihood enterprises. The approach has strengthened key institutions that support farmers through deliberative scoping, tailoring, and capacity-building activities with extension and meteorological services. It has been well received by those that use it and is being integrated into policy and training curricula. Key reasons for the success of the approach include the importance of supporting farmers as decision makers and empowering them to relate relatively complex weather and climate information to their own contexts. Key considerations for the future include ensuring sustainability and further scaling as well as maintaining quality.