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Piloting an ICT-based App for providing weather forecasts, agroadvisory and market information to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia

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Title Piloting an ICT-based App for providing weather forecasts, agroadvisory and market information to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia
 
Creator Fikreyesus, Daniel
Tesfaye, Lidya
Nebsu, Bayu
Ambaw, Gebermedihin
Recha, John
 
Subject forecasting
agriculture
advisory services
market information services
smallholders
farmers
information and communication technologies
food security
climate change
 
Description Agriculture is the core sector of the Ethiopian economy (Bekabil 2014). However, smallholder farmers that dominate the sector practice rain-fed mixed farming by using unimproved practices leading to low agricultural productivity (Welteji 2018). Ethiopian agriculture is also vulnerable to climate-related risks such as more frequent droughts and flooding, rainfall variability, and heatwaves (high temperatures) (Amsalu 2009). The impacts of hazards related to current weather variability and climate
extremes have already been felt in the country. It is projected that by the year 2050, the negative impacts of climate change, under an extreme scenario of higher temperatures and increased intensity and frequency of extreme events, could cost Ethiopia 8-10% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (Robinson et. al. 2013).
 
Date 2020-11-26
2020-11-26T13:01:06Z
2020-11-26T13:01:06Z
 
Type Brief
 
Identifier Fikreyesus D, Tesfaye L, Nebsu B, Ambaw G, Recha J. 2020. Piloting an ICT-based App for providing weather forecasts, agroadvisory and market information to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. CCAFS Info Note. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/110328
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 4 p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security