In Ethiopia, climate change is set to hit the agricultural
sector adversely and cause considerable
negative impacts particularly for smallholder farmers.
Weather information is one of the requirements
for effective climate change adaptation in Ethiopia,
where Agriculture is the backbone of the economy.
This study made during 2011/12 investigates whether
smallholder farmers, development agents and
organizations in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia
have access to weather information and
consequently use it in their agricultural activities to
overcome adverse impacts of climate change. For
this study, data were collected and analyzed from 200
randomly selected households, 34
development agents and 18 experts of different
organizations in four districts (Meki, Melkassa, Miesso
and Ziway) representing the same agro-ecological
settings in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia. The
result revealed that the adaptation capacity of farmers
in using weather information are constrained by language
problems, difficulty in understanding forecast terminology, absence of a center
for
coordination and downscaling weather information at
local level and inconsistency in the time of
information provision were the common problems
identified in the study area. A new weather
information delivery system is proposed which enables
effective and location and purpose specific
weather information delivery to farming communities and
other stakeholders in the agricultural sector.
Author(s) Details
Hirut Getachew Feleke
Department of Plant Science,
College of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Ambo University, Ambo, Ethiopia.
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