The Role of Response Farming Rainfall Forecasts in improving the performance of Agronomic Adaptation Strategies

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dc.creatorMahoo, H.F.
dc.creatorTumbo, S. D.
dc.creatorRwehumbiza, F. B.
dc.creatorAdmassu, H.
dc.date2017-06-19T11:05:10Z
dc.date2017-06-19T11:05:10Z
dc.date2016
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-25T08:52:28Z
dc.date.available2022-10-25T08:52:28Z
dc.descriptionFarming by resource-poor and inadequately informed farmers with fixed best-bet strategies under seasonal variability and changing climate in the semi-arid Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia has often proven to be of very low flexibility. While, struggling to survive in the face of high risks, farmers in semi arid-arid areas need flexible seasonal adaptation strategies. The “Response Farming” (RF) methodology, a system that derives forecast of seasonal rainfall from very early rain occurrences, and makes choices of crops and practices to conform to the forecasts was evaluated. The potential of RF in improving traditional adaptation measures employed to current rainfall variability and to observed and projected climate change was investigated. RF turned out superior to both research and farmers’ production strategies. Our evaluation of climate variability and change interventions (RF) show that adaptation strategies, based on RF modeling using long-term weather records, to be useful keys for improving traditional adaptation strategies and to make farming ecologically sustainable and economically feasible as climate change unfolds.
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dc.identifierhttps://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/1638
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/92599
dc.languageen
dc.subjectResponse Farming
dc.subjectClimate Variability
dc.subjectClimate Change
dc.subjectInadequately informed farmers
dc.subjectPoor-resource farmers
dc.titleThe Role of Response Farming Rainfall Forecasts in improving the performance of Agronomic Adaptation Strategies
dc.typeWorking Paper

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