1) The document discusses enhancing climate-smart agriculture in Nyando, Kenya through partnerships, decision support tools, and climate information services. 2) It aims to build smallholder farmers' capacity to manage climate risks and adapt to climate change by strengthening partnerships between farmers and organizations, applying decision support tools, and providing accessible climate data and products. 3) Specific objectives include developing communication strategies to help farmers make better decisions based on historical climate data, forecasts, and their own experiences.

1. Enhancing Climate Smart
Agriculture in Nyando through
innovative partnerships, decision
support tools and Climate
Information Services
Nyando CCAFS Site Review and Planning workshop
17-18th December, 2013
The Vic Hotel, Kisumu, Kenya

2. The Problem
• Climate risk contributes to chronic poverty,
food insecurity and vulnerability
• Opportunities to help farmers cope with
current climate and adapt to a future climate
depend on information

3. Climate Information Service
• Is the dissemination of climate information to
the decision maker or user.
• Purpose is to interpret and apply for decision
making.

4. Farmers’ decisions ahead of a season
usually consider ...
Improved understanding leads to better decisions
soil properties?
historical climate?
crops requirements?
future markets?
future climate?
past markets?

5. Main Objective
• to build the capacity of the smallholder
farmers to manage climate risks and to adapt
to climate change

6. Specific objectives
1. To build partnerships between farmers,
researchers, extension agents, NMS, agro-
dealers and media to strengthen farmers’
capacity to manage agricultural climate
risks and adapt to climate change.
2. To apply DSTs to enhance farm-level
decision making, climate risk assessment
and analysis of coping and adaptation
options.
3. To promote wider use of DSTs by
making it easy to access and process input
data from various sources.
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7. Specific objectives
4. To identify gaps in climate services
and develop new products that meet
the needs of farmers.
5. To develop communication
strategies that enhance farmers’
capacity to manage climate-related
risks.
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8. Conceptual framework
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9. Keywords
CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE
PARTNERSHIPS
DECISION SUPPORT
TOOLS (DSTs)
CLIMATE INFORMATION
SERVICES

10. PARTNERSHIPS

11. Role of partners

12. Kisumu Met Station MAM analysis
Start of MAM Rain including a dry spell condition
(First day after 1st March with 20mm in 4 days, dry spell not exceeding 7 days in 30 days)
year
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14 Apr
9 Apr
4 Apr
30 Mar
25 Mar
20 Mar
15 Mar
10 Mar
5 Mar
Analysis to be
done for other
stations

13. Downscaling and Communicating
Seasonal and Short Term Forecasts
Integrating with agricultural advisories

14. Soil Analysis, Rain Gauge Installation, Farmer
Experimentation

15. Farmers Climate and Crop Calendar
AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR APR MAY
Plan for the
season
Get Seasonal
Forecast
Manage your Crop
and Soil
Farm records
Harvest
Add value
Market
Manage your
Crop and Soil
Farm records
Know
your
Crop and
Soil
Get forecast
updates
Know your
past climate
Review Season
Prepare land
Measure rain
Prepare land
Get forecast
updates
Measure rainMeasure rainMeasure rain
Get Seasonal
Forecast

16. Achievements in 2013
• Stakeholder inception meeting
• Partnership building has started
• Data for Kisumu and Kericho Met Stations
analysed
• Trained 40 farmers in the three CBOs
• Resource allocation maps 40 farmers
• Crop modelling has started
• Crop climate requirements compiled by KARI

17. Next steps
• Improve seasonal forecast downscaling
• Install of 45 rain gauges
• Farmer experimentation MAM 2014 season
• Climate data analysis for extra stations
• Soil analysis in 40 farms
• Participatory Crop Modelling in Jan 2014
• Development of climate products and services
and communication approaches
• Farmer training manuals
• Scientific publications