The 2nd Asia-Pacific Agriculture Climate Services Week

The 2nd Asia-Pacific Agriculture Climate Services Week will be organized between 30 November- 3, December & 7 December 2021. The time is 10:00 to 13:00 each day [Bangkok time/GMT+7]. The event aims to share innovations and promote climate services to support the transformation toward climate mitigation and adapted, resilient agri-food systems in the Asia-Pacific.

The five-day session will be organized around the following topics:

Day 1, November 30: Evidence-based climate resilient agriculture planning and investment

Day 2, December 1: Agrometeorological services to address multiple hazards

Day 3,  December 2: Early Warning and Anticipatory Action to transform the management of climate extremes/disasters

Day 4,  December 3: Beyond crops - climate services for all sub-sectors and value chains

Day 5, December 7: Cross-cutting issues and The Way Forward

Please register HERE for participation.

If you have any successful case studies in your country/region/area that you wish to share with other participants, please send an email with details at [email protected]. We will showcase them on this page.

For any registration enquiry, please contact [email protected]

The Agriculture Climate Services Innovation Showcase

We invited colleagues to submit their innovations on climate services in agriculture and food security.

1. Improving Rural Livelihoods through carbon sequestration by adopting environmentally friendly technology based agroforestry practices, India, VEDA Climate Change Solutions Ltd. LINK

2. Promoting Climate Resilient Agriculture Practices, Buthan, UNDP Bhutan LINK

3. Strategies to Prevent Spillover, Bangladesh and Vietnam; Cambodia to start soon; Liberia and Uganda in Africa, Southeast Asia One Health University (SEAOHUN) LINK

4. Pre and Post Cyclonic Agromet Advisories in Bangladesh, Bangladesh, Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), Ministry of Agriculture, Bangladesh LINK

5. Climate Services for Agriculture, Australia, Australian Government Department of Agriculture Water and the Environment LINK

6. Waterapps, an innovation in agriculture and strategic delta planning, Bangladesh, Wageningen University and Research LINK 

7.  Scientific due diligence for humanitarian Disaster Risk Financing, START Network LINK

8. Primer on Mainstreaming Gender and DRF: Experiences of Marginalized Gender Identities in Disasters in the Philippines, Philippines, START Network LINK

9. Developing Climate Information Services for Aquaculture in Bangladesh: A Decision Framework for Managing Temperature and Rainfall Variability-Induced Risks, Bangladesh, CIMMYT LINK

10. Progressing Indonesia’s Agriculture 4.0 Through Research and Application Towards ASEAN Digitalization Initiatives in the Covid-19 Pandemic, Indonesia and ASEAN, SEAMEO BIOTROP and IPB University LINK

11. Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) in Bangladesh, Bangladesh, University of Reading, CIMMYT, IHE Delft, and the Bangladesh Departments for Agricultural Extension and Meteorology LINK

12. An intelligent advisory system to provide climate services: A case study of farmers in risk prone rainfed areas, India, ICRISAT LINK