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How climate services can help people adapt
to variability and change.................................................................. 10
Filipe Domingos Freires Lúcio, Head, Global Framework for Climate Services Office,
World Meteorological Organization
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Agriculture
Climate information services for food and agriculture....................... 16
Ramasamy Selvaraju, Climate, Energy and Tenure Division,
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome
Reaching farming communities in India through
Farmer Awareness Programmes........................................................ 20
L.S. Rathore, India Meteorological Department, New Delhi, N. Chattopadhyay,
Agricultural Meteorology Division, India Meteorological Department, Pune
and K.K. Singh, India Meteorological Department, New Delhi
Mainstreaming climate information for
agricultural activities in Kenya.......................................................... 24
Peter Ambenje, Samwel Marigi, Samuel Mwangi, Ayub Shaka
and William Githungo, Kenya Meteorological Department
Helping the world’s poorest farmers
adapt to a changing climate.............................................................. 28
Warren Page, Manager, Communications,
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
Reducing crop loss through Climate Field School –
the Indonesian experience. .............................................................. 31
A.E. Sakya, S.W.B. Harijono, W. Sulistya, Nurhayati, N. Florida,
Marjuki Indonesia Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG)
Delivering advisory services by mobile phone................................... 35
L.S. Rathore, India Meteorological Department, New Delhi, N. Chattopadhyay,
Agricultural Meteorology Division, India Meteorological Department, Pune
and K.K. Singh, India Meteorological Department, New Delhi
Climate science and services to support decision-making................. 39
Seok Joon Cho, Administrator, Korea Meteorological Administration
Climate services for agricultural production in Guinea Bissau.......... 42
Francisco Gomes, National Institute of Meteorology, Guinea Bissau
Supporting decision-making in the sugar industry
with integrated seasonal climate forecasting..................................... 46
Roger C. Stone, Neil Cliffe, Shahbaz Mushtaq, University of Southern Queensland;
and Yvette Everingham, James Cook University, Australia
Seasonal climate prediction in Chile: the
Agroclimate Outlook........................................................................ 50
Juan Quintana, Benito Piuzzi and Jorge F. Carrasco,
Dirección Meteorológica de Chile – Dirección General Aeronáutica Civil;
and Liliana Villanueva, Ministerio de Agricultura, Unidad de Emergencia Agrícola
Climate services and agriculture in the Caribbean............................ 53
Adrian R. Trotman, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology
Climate outlooks for food security in Central America...................... 57
Patricia Ramírez and Adriana Bonilla, Regional Committee on Hydraulic Resources
of the Central American Integration System
MOSAICC: an interdisciplinary system of models to
evaluate the impact of climate change on agriculture........................ 60
Francois Delobel and Oscar Rojas, Climate, Energy and Tenure Division,
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Climate information services for herder families in Mongolia............ 63
National Weather and Hydrological Service, Mongolia
Climate change adaptation methodologies in the
Bay of Bengal fishing communities................................................... 65
Yugraj Singh Yadava, Director and Rajdeep Mukherjee, Policy Analyst,
Bay of Bengal Programme Inter-Governmental Organisation
Improved livelihoods and building resilience in the semi-arid
tropics: science-led, knowledge-based watershed management..............69
Suhas PWani, Assistant Research ProgramDirector and Principal Scientist (Watersheds),
Resilient Dryland Systems (RDS);WilliamD. Dar, Director General; Dileep KGuntuku, Global
Leader, Knowledge Sharing and Innovation; Kaushal KGarg, Scientist, RDS and AVR Kesava
Rao, Scientist, RDS, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, India
Climate change impact on Indonesian fisheries................................ 72
Jonson Lumban Gaol and Bisman Nababan, Department of Marine Science and
Technology, Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Science, Bogor Agricultural University;
Khairul Amri and Aryo Hanggono, Institute of Fisheries and Marine Affairs for
Research and Development, Department of Fisheries and Marine Affairs; and Orbita
Roswintiarti, National Institute of Aeronautics and Space, Indonesia
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Partnerships on water resource management in France.................... 76
Philippe Dandin, François Besson, Michèle Blanchard, Jean-Pierre Céron, Laurent
Franchistéguy, Fabienne Rousset-Regimbeau, Jean-Michel Soubeyroux, Météo-France,
Direction de la Climatologie; Martine Baillon, Ministère de l’Ecologie, du Développement
Durable et de l’Energie, SCHAPI; Jean-Philippe Vidal, Institut National de Recherche
en Sciences et Techniques pour l’Environnement et l’Agriculture; Stéphanie Singla, Eric
Martin, Météo-France and CNRS, Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques;
Florence Habets, CNRS, UMR Sisyphe UPMC, Mines ParisTech.
Building the Seasonal Streamflow Forecasting Service...................... 79
Claire Hawksworth, Trudy Wilson, Jeff Perkins, Senlin Zhou and Bat Le,
Climate and Water Division, Australian Bureau of Meteorology
Developing the capacity of Central Asian national
planning agencies to model climate impact scenarios
and develop adaptation strategies..................................................... 83
Jaakko Nuottokari, Head of International Consulting, Consulting Services;
Dr Ari Venäläinen Senior Research Scientist, Climate Change; and Natalia Pimenoff,
Research Scientist, Climate Change, Finnish Meteorological Institute
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