Scaling weather and climate services for agriculture in Senegal: Evaluating systemic but overlooked effects

Blundo Canto Genowefa, Andrieu Nadine, Soule Adam Nawalyath, Ndiaye Ousmane, Chiputwa Brian. 2021. Scaling weather and climate services for agriculture in Senegal: Evaluating systemic but overlooked effects. Climate Services, 22:100216, 15 p.

Quartile : Q2, Sujet : ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES / Quartile : Q2, Sujet : ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES / Quartile : Q2, Sujet : METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

Résumé : In the West African Sahel, climate variability and climate change pose huge challenges to food security and health, particularly for poor and marginalised population groups. Co-production of actionable climate information between scientists and users has been advocated to increase its use in adaptation to climate change. Consequently, Weather and Climate Services (WCS) co-production models have been expanding, but there have been few evaluations of their effects, and those that exist mostly focus on the end user. The empirical contribution of this paper is an evidence based evaluation of the scaling of WSC co-production models and its enabling factors. The methodological contribution is a systemic and iterative evaluation method involving multiple analytical tools. The scaling of WCS in Senegal involved at least 161 actors and resulted in five axes of transformation: 1) continuous improvement of WCS, 2) emergence and consolidation of WCS facilitators, 3) inclusion of WCS in action planning, 4) active mobilisation to sustain WCS scaling, and 5) empowerment of actors. New users and uses emerged beyond agriculture, involving the fisheries, water and energy sectors, producing changes in institutional communication strategies, operational planning, and in coordination between actors. Enabling factors for scaling included capacity strengthening, knowledge-sharing and action platforms, interaction opportunities, and financial and political support. However, reduced precision of forecasts over time is perceived. New challenges are emerging including improving delivery and finer grain information, getting the private sector involved, and building capacity and trust at a large scale, to keep pace with the increase in uses and users.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : agriculture intelligente face au climat, changement climatique, agrométéorologie, adaptation aux changements climatiques, climatologie, données climatiques, données météorologiques, prévision météorologique, évaluation de l'impact

Mots-clés géographiques Agrovoc : Sénégal

Mots-clés libres : Evaluation, Chemin d'impact, Senegal, Impact pathway, Services agro-climatiques

Classification Agris : P40 - Météorologie et climatologie
A01 - Agriculture - Considérations générales

Champ stratégique Cirad : CTS 6 (2019-) - Changement climatique

Auteurs et affiliations

• Blundo Canto Genowefa, CIRAD-ES-UMR INNOVATION (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0003-4182-3663 - auteur correspondant
• Andrieu Nadine, CIRAD-ES-UMR INNOVATION (COL)
• Soule Adam Nawalyath, CIRAD-ES-UMR INNOVATION (FRA)
• Ndiaye Ousmane, ANACIM (SEN)
• Chiputwa Brian, ICRAF (KEN)

Source : Cirad-Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/597680/)

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