Climate Prediction and Agriculture: Advances and Challenges

Front Matter....Pages I-XXVI
Climate Prediction and Agriculture: Summary and the Way Forward....Pages 1-13
Climate Downscaling: Assessment of the Added Values Using Regional Climate Models....Pages 15-29
Development of a Combined Crop and Climate Forecasting System for Seasonal to Decadal Predictions....Pages 31-40
Delivering Climate Forecast Products to Farmers: Ex Post Assessment of Impacts of Climate Information on Corn Production Systems in Isabela, Philippines....Pages 41-48
Seasonal Predictions and Monitoring for Sahel Region....Pages 49-56
Institutionalizing Climate Forecast Applications for Agriculture....Pages 57-61
Climate Applications and Agriculture: CGIAR Efforts, Capacities and Partner Opportunities....Pages 63-70
Institutional Capacity Building in Developing Countries through Regional Climate Outlook Forums (RCOFs) Process....Pages 71-77
Use of ENSO-Driven Climatic Information for Optimum Irrigation under Drought Conditions: Preliminary Assessment Based on Model Results for the Maipo River Basin, Chile....Pages 79-88
Towards the Development of a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) for the Application of Climate Forecasts in Uruguayan Rice Production Sector....Pages 89-97
Assessing the Use of Seasonal Climate Forecasts to Support Farmers in the Andean Highlands....Pages 99-110
Application of Seasonal Climate Forecasts for Sustainable Agricultural Production in Telangana Subdivision of Andhra Pradesh, India....Pages 111-127
Localized Climate Forecasting System: Seasonal Climate and Weather Prediction for Farm-Level Decision-Making....Pages 129-134
Use of Sea Surface Temperature for Predicting Optimum Planting Window for Potato at Pengalengan, West Java, Indonesia....Pages 135-141
Climate Forecast for Better Water Management in Agriculture: A Case Study for Southern India....Pages 143-155
Linking Corn Production, Climate Information and Farm-Level Decision-Making: A Case Study in Isabela, Philippines....Pages 157-164
Use of ENSO-Based Seasonal Rainfall Forecasting for Informed Cropping Decisions by Farmers in the SAT India....Pages 165-180
Application of Climate Prediction for Rice Production in the Mekong River Delta (Vietnam)....Pages 181-187
Climate Prediction and Agriculture: What Is Different about Sudano-Sahelian West Africa?....Pages 189-203
Can ENSO Help in Agricultural Decision-Making in Ghana?....Pages 205-212
Application of Seasonal Climate Forecasts to Predict Regional Scale Crop Yields in South Africa....Pages 213-224
Climate Information for Food Security: Responding to User’s Climate Information Needs....Pages 225-248
Improving Applications in Agriculture of ENSO-Based Seasonal Rainfall Forecasts Considering Atlantic Ocean Surface Temperatures....Pages 249-257
AGRIDEMA: An EU-Funded Effort to Promote the Use of Climate and Crop Simulation Models in Agricultural Decision-Making....Pages 259-264
Web-Based System to True-Forecast Disease Epidemics — Case Study for Fusarium Head Blight of Wheat....Pages 265-271
Climate-Based Agricultural Risk Management Tools for Florida, Georgia and Alabama, USA....Pages 273-278
Climate Prediction and Agriculture: Lessons Learned and Future Challenges from an Agricultural Development Perspective....Pages 279-283
Conclusions and Recommendations....Pages 285-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-307