Overview of Capacity Building in CAgM

Robert Stefanski Agricultural Meteorology Programme

WMO

WMO

WMO Technical Commissions Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology

(CAeM) Commission for Agricultural Meteorology

(CAgM) Commission for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS) Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) Commission for Climatology (CCl) Commission for Hydrology (CHy) Commission for Instruments and Methods of

Observation (CIMO) Joint WMO-IOC Commission for Oceanography

and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM)

Management Group

(MG)

FA 1 Operational Agricultural Meteorology

Chair: N. Chattophday (India-RA II)

Co-chair: D. Diarra (Mali-RA I)

COMMISSION FOR AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGY

President: Byong Lee, Vice-President: Federica Rossi

FOCUS AREAS (FA)

FA 2

Science and Technology for

Agricultural Meteorology

Chair: O. Brunini

(Brazil-RA III) Co-chair: H. Shannon

(USA-RA IV)

FA 3 Natural Hazards

and Climate Change/Variability

In Agriculture

Chair: R. Stone (Australia-RA V)

Co-chair: R. Desjardins (Canada-RA IV)

FA 4 Capacity

Development in Agricultural Meteorology

Chair: E. Mateescu

(Romania-RA VI) Co-chair: J. Ukeje

(Nigeria-RA I)

Advisors: S. Orlandini (Italy-RA VI )

G. Zhou (China-RA II)

Key Questions in Weather/Climate Applications

What are the weather / climate events that impact the decision-making of users? How to relate weather / climate information to

meaningful actions / practices for users?

Different Types of Users Decision-makers include: International officials (UN, Red Cross) Government official (Ministries) NMHS Staff Ag Extension agents, water resource managers,

disaster mgmt Farmers, ranchers, foresters, fishers Media

Project overview KYENVU Kulabula Atusa Uganda Met Kalangala 02:19 AM 17:02:12 Ekisera: 6am – 6pm Okulabula: BEERA NGOMANYI Omuyaga: GW’AMAANYI ENNYO Embera y?obudde ENKUBA N’OKUBWATUKA KW’EGULU WANO N’AWALI Wokoma kulaba: WAKIGERO

CAgM Focus Area 1 – Operational Agricultural Meteorology

ET 1.1 - Livestock, Poultry, and Inland Fisheries ET 1.2 - Agromet Products ET 1.3 - Forestry (Fire Weather, Fire danger rating) TT 1.1 - Publication on Case Studies TT 1.2 - Task Team on Guidelines for Developing

Agricultural Weather Bulletins

Joint CAgM–JCOMM Task Team on Weather, Climate and Fisheries

CAgM Focus Area 4 – Capacity Development ET 4.1 - Capacity Building ET 4.2 - Guidelines on Education and training in

Agromet

TT 4.1 - Developing Online Community of Climate and Agricultural Production

TT 4.2 – Identifying Agromet Publications and GAMP

GFCS User Interface Platform for Ag and Food Security

Expert Team 4 – Capacity Building a) Review and report on the synergies between WMO training

programmes (e.g. crop modeling, GIS and remote sensing applications in agrometeorology, climate smart agriculture, water footprint , etc.) and other international training programmes in order to identify needs/constraints/ opportunities of users to understand and use dedicated services and products;

b) Identify training needs required to improve agricultural meteorological services and to meet user requirements;

c) Review the training opportunities and methodologies from funded projects and in collaboration with the Global and National Agrometeorological Societies;

Expert Team 4 – Capacity Building d) Review the WMO Global Campus Initiative and make

recommendations how to integrate the work of the GCREAMS with this initative;

e) Review existing agrometeorological training activities (i.e. modules, exercises, different stakeholders, etc) and recommend which activities should be further used in agrometeorological

Expert Team 4 – Guidelines on Education and training in Agromet a) a) Review existing WMO publication on Guidelines for

Curricula in Agricultural Meteorology, Supplement No. 2 (WMO-No. 258) and the Manual on the Implementation of Education and Training Standards in Meteorology and Hydrology (WMO-No. 1083);

b) Transform the existing curricula in (WMO-No. 258) into learning outcomes per WMO-No 1083;

c) Develop a new supplement for WMO-No 1083 for agricultural meteorology;

d) Make an inventory of existing available institutions that offer education and training in agricultural meteorology;

Expert Team 4 – Guidelines on Education and training in Agromet e) Make an inventory of existing and available agricultural

meteorological textbooks for a range of levels of formal education and informal training;

f) Make recommendations based on the review in (d) to CAgM on which agricultural meteorological textbooks are suitable.

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2009 Seminar - Mali Met Service Presentation

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2009 Seminar – Farmers ask Questions

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Distribution of Rainguages to Nigerian Farmers

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Example of Crop Planting Advice based on Rainfall

Crops: Millet and Sorghum • Crop Cycle: 90 – 120 days • 1 – Avoid planting before 10 June, but proceed to make field preparations. • 2 – From 11 to 30 June, plant long-cycle crops (120 days) as soon as the 10-

day cumulative recorded rainfall which reaches or surpasses 20 mm. • 3 – From 1 to 20 July, plant short-cycle crops (90 days) as soon as the 10-day

cumulative recorded rainfall reaches or surpasses 10 mm.

Due to the high spatial variability of rainfall, each farmer or village can make planting decisions based on their own raingauge.

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2008-2014

Funded by Spain and Norway

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Based on 2003-04 study in Mali

Training and Capacity Building METAGRI project – Roving Seminars in West Africa

Only 10% of participants of Roving Seminars were

women. Lessons learned from WMO Conference on Gender will help Members increase the participation of women in Roving Seminars and other activities

AgMP provided support to NMHSs of India, Croatia, Ecuador, Peru, Romania and the Republic of Moldova to organize Roving Seminars

Liaised with FAO in Sierra Leone and Liberia

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GFCS Priorities

Agriculture Disaster risk reduction Water Health Energy

Weather • Climate •

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Early implementation

Focus of activities in Bhutan – RA II Burkina Faso – I Colombia – III Dominica – IV Moldova – VI Papua New Guinea –V Peru - III Tanzania - I

Regional workshops for the most vulnerable countries

South East Asia, Caribbean, South West Pacific, Latin America, South East Europe, Middle East and North Africa

CAgM and GFCS CAgM members helped developed the GFCS

Agriculture and Food Security Exemplar

CAgM-16 created User Interface Platform for Agriculture and Food Security (UIP-AFS) within the Focus Area 4 - Capacity Development

UIP-AFS meeting in Jan 2016 to develop user requirements based on the needs of selected GFCS countries

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Regional National Drought Management Policy Workshops - Sessions Country Reports Keynote Presentation – Don Wilhite – US Expert

Drought monitoring and early warning systems - WMO Vulnerability and risk assessment – UNCCD Biodiversity and Drought – CBD Drought preparedness, mitigation and responses – FAO

www.ais.unwater.org/droughtmanagement

Regional National Drought Management Policy Workshops Central & Eastern Europe, Romania - July 2013 Latin America and Caribbean, Brazil, Dec 2013 Asia-Pacific, Vietnam, May 2014 Eastern & Southern Africa, Ethiopia, Aug 2014 North Africa and SW Asia, Egypt, Nov 2014 Western and Central Africa – Ghana, May 2015

Initiative ended in July 2015 and a next project phase of

national consultations is proposed

Other CAgM Capacity Building Activities

Ensure Links to WMO Global Campus Develop GCREAMS with RTCs Climate Field Schools - Indonesia Linking FAO Farmer Field Schools with Climate Field

Schools Statistics in Applied Climatology – University of Reading Severe Weather Forecasting Demostration Project Training course on crop modeling, satellite products

www.wmo.int

Thank you for your attention

rstefanski@wmo.int

CAgM Focus Area 2 – Science and Technology ET 2.1- World Agrometeorological Information Service

(WAMIS) ET 2.2 – Data Issues in Agrometeorology

TT 2.1 – Agromet and GIS Applications for Agricultural

Decision Making TT 2.2 - Soil Moisture Measurements TT 2.3 - Flux Measurements For Agriculture

CAgM Focus Area 3 – Natural Hazards & Climate Change/Variability In Agric. ET 3.1 - Drought ET 3.2 - Agricultural Decision-support and Extension

Services on Climate Extremes ET 3.3 – Weather/Climate Extremes and Agricultural

Industry Needs TT 3.1 - Socio-economic impacts of weather and climate

extremes on Agriculture TT 3.2 - Weather and Climate Modelling for Sustainable

Agriculture Joint Expert Group on Climate, Food and Water (JEG-CFW)