Bridging the gap between climate science and farmers in Colombia

Loboguerrero, Ana María; Boshell, Francisco; Leon, Gloria R.; Martínez-Barón, Deissy; Giraldo, Diana; Mejía, Liliana Recaman; Díaz, Eliecer; Cock, James H.

doi:10.1016/j.crm.2018.08.001

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“…In Colombia, most farms are medium and small businesses, thus many of them do not keep reports and their ability to assess the consequences of weather changes on their crops is limited. Loboguerrero et al, 2018 show the benefits of Local Technical Agroclimatic Committees (LTACs) system promoted by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). It has established an organization for creating dialogue between researchers and farmers that would provide farmers with options in the face of both short and long term variations in climate in two regions of Colombia.…”

Section: Enso and Its Relationship With The Colombian Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, Colombian agricultural economic authorities estimated a reduction of 5% in agricultural production caused by El Niño shocks (MinAgricultura, 2006). Some fishing and agricultural goods are adversely affected by the El Niño such as tilapia, livestock, sugarcane, rice, plantain, maize, potato, flowers and bananas (Blanco, Barandica, andViloria, 2007 andLoboguerrero et al, 2018). However, a few other goods can benefit from El Niño conditions.…”

Section: Enso and Its Relationship With The Colombian Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Relaciones no lineales entre el fenómeno climático El Niño y los precios de los alimentos en Colombia

Melo‐Velandia¹,

Parra‐Amado²,

Abril‐Salcedo³

2019

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The results and opinions are exclusive responsibility of the authors and those do not commit the Fondo Nacional de Garantías nor Banco de la República nor its board of directors.Abstract Extreme weather events, like a strong El Niño (ENSO), affect society in many different ways especially in the context of recent globe warming. In the Colombian case, ENSO had a significant impact on consumer food prices during the strongest event in 2015-16. Our research evaluates the relationship between ENSO and Colombian food inflation growth by using a smooth transition non-linear model. We estimate the impacts of a strong ENSO on food inflation growth by adopting Generalized Impulse Response Functions (GIRFs) and the results suggest that the weather shocks are transitory and asymmetric on inflation. A strong El Niño shock has a significate effect on the food inflation growth from six to nine months after the shock and the accumulated elasticity is close to 465 basic points. We build the GIRFs for eight different episodes associated with a strong El Niño in the period corresponding from March 1962 to December 2018 and there is no evidence of changes in the size of Colombian food inflation growth responses over time.JEL code.C32, C50, E31.Los resultados y opiniones contenidas en el presente documento son responsabilidad exclusiva de los autores y no comprometen al Fondo Nacional de Garantías ni al Banco de la República ni a su Junta Directiva. ResumenEventos extremos del clima como El Niño (ENSO) fuerte afectan la sociedad de diferentes maneras en especial en el reciente contexto de calentamiento global. En 2015-16, se observó el evento de El Niño más fuerte en losúltimos cien años el cual presentó un impacto significativo sobre los precios de alimentos al consumidor en el caso colombiano. El presente trabajo de investigación evalúa la relación entre ENSO y el crecimiento de la inflación de alimentos para el consumidor en Colombia usando un modelo no lineal de transición suave y estimando funciones de impulso respuesta generalizadas (GIRFs). Los resultados sugieren que dichos choques climáticos son transitorios y asimétricos sobre la inflación. Así, El Niño fuerte tiene un impacto significativo sobre el crecimiento de la inflación de alimentos entre seis y nueve meses después del choque climático y la elasticidad acumulada es 465 puntos básicos. Adicionalmente, se construyeron GIRFs para ocho diferentes episodios de tiempo asociados con un fenómeno de El Niño fuerte que se observaron entre marzo de 1962 y diciembre de 2018 y se encontró que no hay evidencia estadística de cambios en el tamaño de las respuestas del crecimiento de la inflación de alimentos en Colombia a través del tiempo.Clasificación JEL: C32, C50, E31.Palabras clave: El Niño-Oscilación del Sur, modelos no lineales de transición suave, inflación.

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Section: Enso and Its Relationship With The Colombian Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Enso and Its Relationship With The Colombian Economymentioning

confidence: 99%

Relaciones no lineales entre el fenómeno climático El Niño y los precios de los alimentos en Colombia

Melo‐Velandia¹,

Parra‐Amado²,

Abril‐Salcedo³

2019

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“…Their role of the GTP was extended to produce weather-and climate-based management advisories for farmers, most notably in Mali's Agrometeorological Advisory program (Carr and Onzere, 2016). Other relevant variations include Local Technical Agro-climatic Committees (LTACs) in Colombia and Central America, adapted from the GTP model following South-South exchange visits with Senegal, (Loboguerrero et al, 2018); and multi-stakeholder seasonal planning across Kenya's counties using CARE's PSP process (Ambani et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In principle such working groups could play a valuable "upstream" co-production role by translating farmers' voice into the design of improved climate information products; but in practice they often play the narrower role of engaging agricultural experts to translate NMS products into management advisories for farmers. Exceptions are led or co-led by agriculture sector institutions instead of NMS (Vaughan et al, 2017;Loboguerrero et al, 2018;Ouedraogo et al, 2018) While a few comparative studies attempt to distill generalizable lessons (Orlove and Tosteson, 1999;Tall et al, 2014a;e.g., Kruczkiewicz et al, 2018), their influence on the use of climate information and resulting benefit has not been assessed systematically.…”

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confidence: 99%

Climate Services Can Support African Farmers' Context-Specific Adaptation Needs at Scale

Hansen

Vaughan

Kagabo³

et al. 2019

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

103

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“…Gradually, farmers are becoming unable to predict the patterns of rainfall in order to plan their production processes. Thus, farmers face uncertainty in their production [6]. This raised the need for seasonal climate forecasts and making these information available to the farmers.…”

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Analysis of Smallholder Farmers’ Perceptions on Climate Change, Preference and Willingness-to-pay for Seasonal Climate Forecasts Information in Savelugu Municipality, Ghana

Ibrahim

Mensah

Alhassan

et al. 2019

AJEE

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Aim: Agricultural production is directly affected by climate change. This means that access to climate information would help the farmers’ preparedness for farming activities and the decision on the types of crops to grow, when to grow them and the types of farm management activities to adopt. As such, this study analysed farmers’ preference for seasonal climate forecasts and their willingness-to-pay for these information. Place and Duration: The study was conducted in the Savelugu Municipality in the Northern region of Ghana. A single period data was collected for analysis. Methodology: A total of 300 farmers were selected through a two stage sampling procedure and used for the study. From the theory of contingent valuation, a descriptive statistic and Heckman model were used in analysing the data. Results: From the results, the majority of farmers were willing-to-pay for seasonal climate information, especially, climate forecasts on rainfall. The farmers preferred that these seasonal climate forecasts should be disseminated to them through the radio. The farmers exhibit positive willingness-to-pay for seasonal climate forecasts to about 20 Ghana cedis. A number of factors influenced the farmers’ decision and amount they were willing-to-pay and these include gender, age, perception of climate change experience, ownership of radio, off-farm activity and participation in planting for food and jobs (PFFJ) program. Conclusions: The findings of this study highlighted the need for climate information by farmers and how this can be effectively disseminated to them. Generally, government institutions and other private agencies should take up the challenge and opportunity to provide climate information, especially seasonal rainfall forecast, to the farmers at a fee. This fee must be determined at an optimal or at least a breakeven price considering the farmer’s ability to pay. The study also recommended that climate information dissemination should be integrated into government’s PFFJ program.

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Bridging the gap between climate science and farmers in Colombia

Cited by 44 publications

References 19 publications

Relaciones no lineales entre el fenómeno climático El Niño y los precios de los alimentos en Colombia

Relaciones no lineales entre el fenómeno climático El Niño y los precios de los alimentos en Colombia

Climate Services Can Support African Farmers' Context-Specific Adaptation Needs at Scale

Analysis of Smallholder Farmers’ Perceptions on Climate Change, Preference and Willingness-to-pay for Seasonal Climate Forecasts Information in Savelugu Municipality, Ghana

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