Progress of WMO. Agricultural Meteorology Programme

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1 Progress of WMO Agricultural Meteorology Programme CAgM MG Oct 2016 Robert Stefanski, Chief Agricultural Meteorology Programme Climate and Water Department

2 Summary of EC 68 Doc 6.3/1 draft Decision 6.3/1 Collaboration between the Commission for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS) and the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM) Recommendations of the Joint CAgM/CAS Workshop on Atmospheric Chemistry and Agricultural Meteorology (Pune, India, 2 4 November 2015)

3 Summary of Draft Decision 6.3/1 Requests the Secretary General: To produce a general information brochure entitled Air Pollution, Climate and Agriculture by December 2016; To provide support from existing sources to develop a regional pilot project on the impacts of the atmospheric composition on agricultural production, in particular through enhancement of the tropospheric ozone monitoring in agricultural areas; Requests the presidents of CAS and CAgM: To use the existing structures and experts of their respective Commissions to support common activities (biomass burning, nitrogen cycle, IG 3 IS) Explore future need for possible joint CAgM/CAS Expert Team

4 Summary of Draft Decision 6.3/2 Component 1: Seminars and simple rain gauges. Improving seed calendars, improved data bases. Component 2: Training. Improvement of technical skills on crop modelling, remote sensing and GIS at NMHSs. Component 3:Improved climate and weather communication for agricultural decision making. Component 4: Evaluation of impacts of the use of weather and climate information in agriculture. Component 5: Improvements in access to weather and climate information for women in agriculture. Component 6: Development of weather and climate risk management in agriculture and food security.

5 Roving Seminars In Nigeria Dec 2015 Two Locations in Nigeria 114 farmers/fishermen participated, 86 males, 28 females. Lectures conducted in both English, Hausa (local language) Organizers: NiMet, All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN), State Ministry of Ag & Rural development, and Agriculture Development Prog. (ADPs) Seminar Topics included: Weather and climate of the different locations; Observed variability and changes in the climate; Impacts on fishing/farming activities; NiMet s climate information services that address these impacts; Highlights of 2015 Seasonal Rainfall Prediction; Farmers perspective of climate change; Level of the fishermen/farmers awareness on NiMet s activities; Identification of farmer s climatic information needs to improve NiMet s service delivery in this regard.

6 Funded by Spain and Norway RAIN GAUGES

7 Summary of 2015 Evaluation in Côte d Ivoire, Ghana, Mauritania, and Niger Criteria Score Indicators Relevance High Building on previous experiences Interest of NMHS, Agriculture Technical Services and Research, NGOs and civil society, farmers and farmers associations Effectiveness High South south collaboration Partnership between NHMS and other national/local stakeholders and improvements compared to METAGRI Collaborations with other initiatives Efficiency Medium Component 1: RS implementation targets and timing Component 2: Capacity building activities targets and timing Component 3: Media involvement and Media meteorologists workshops targets and timing Component 4: feedback and evaluation activities targets and timing Component 5: Institutional development activities targets and timing Impact Medium On NHMS: capacities to provide weather and climate services, Improvements respect to METAGRI, communication and institutional development On farmers: behavior and crop production (Evaluation of impacts) Sustainability High Stakeholders commitment Scaling up by farmers and civil society Synergies and new projects

8 Summary of EC 68 Doc 6.3/3 draft Decision 6.3/3 Collaboration with institutions to implement CAgM activities Draft concept of Global Research Institute of Applied Meteorology (GRIAM) Requests the president of CAgM and Secretary General: With Chinese Meteorological Administration to develop a final Concept Note of GRIAM for consideration at EC 69; Take into account the discussion points from the PTC 2016 with regards to GRIAM.

9 Update on CAgM Actitivies 16 th Session of CAgM approved 10 Expert Teams (ET) and 7 Expert Team have already met One MG and one ICT Meeting already met MG Meeting in Geneva in October 2016

10 CAgM Focus Area 1 Operational Agricultural Meteorology ET 1.1 Livestock, Poultry, and Inland Fisheries ET 1.2 Crops: Agromet Products and Services 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

11 CAgM Focus Area 2 Science and Technology ET 2.1 WAMIS ET 2.2 Data Issues in Agrometeorology TT 2.1 Agrometand GIS Applications for Agricultural Decision Making TT 2.2 Soil Moisture Measurements TT 2.3 Flux Measurements For Agriculture

12 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)

13 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

14 AGM Missions October 2014 International Symposium on Weather and Climate Extremes, Food Security and Biodiversity, Fairfax, Va, USA November th Regional Workshop on National Drought Management Policies North Africa and Near East, Cairo, Egypt November 2014 International Conference on Weather/Climate Modeling and Remote Sensing Applications for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security Community, Jeju, Republic of Korea 1 2 December 2014 Meeting of the WAMIS Expert Team, Jeju, Republic of Korea December 2014 Workshop on the Global Drought Information System (GDIS), Pasadena, USA

15 AGM Missions March 2015 WMO/EUMETSAT/FAO/JRC Training Course on the Use of Satellite Products for AgroMeteorology Applications, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia April 2015 DMCSEE Ad hoc Working Group Meeting and Workshop on Followup drought Activities in South Eastern Europe, Bucharest, Romania 4 7 May th Regional Workshop on National Drought Management Policies West Africa, Accra, Ghana 9 10 September 2015 Advisory Committee and Management Committee Meetings IDMP, Geneva 19 September 2015 Meeting of the Joint JCOMM/CAgM Task Team on Weather, Climate and Fisheries, San Sebastian, Spain 7 9 October 2015 CAgM Implementation / Coordination Team, Bucharest, Romania 2 4 November 2015 CAS/CAgM Workshop on Atmospheric Chemistry and Agricultural Meteorology, Pune, India 6 7 November 2015 Meeting of CAgM Expert Team on Crops: Products and Services (formerly Agromet Products), Pune, India 9 10 November 2015 Meeting of the RA II Expert Group on Agrometeorology (EG AgM), Pune, India November 2015 METAGRI OPS Evaluation Workshop, Abidjan, Cote d'ivoire

16 AGM Missions February 2016 Meeting of CAgM Focus Area 3 Geneva, Switzerland April 2016 Meeting of CAgM Focus Area 4, Bucharest, Romania May 2016 Training Course on the Use of Satellite Products for Drought Monitoring and Agricultural Meteorology Applications, Tbilisi, Georgia 9 July 2016 FAO Regional Fisheries Management Organization Rome 8 10 August 2016 Global Conference on Climate Change Adaptation for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Bangkok, Thailand September 2016 IDMP AC and MC Meetings, Geneva 16 September 2016 IDMP Expert Group Meeting on Action, Inaction for drought preparedness, cost and benefits, Geneva, Switzerland September rd Satellite Soil Moisture Validation and Application Workshop, New York City 23 September 2016 CAgM Task Team Meeting on Soil Moisture Measurements, New York City October South Pacific RFMO Meeting The Hague, Netherlands October nd Meeting of CAgM Management Group ( ), Geneva, Switzerland October 2016 WMO/EUMETSAT Satellite Products Training Course on Drought Monitoring and Applications in Agrometeorology, Harare, Zimbabwe

17 CAgM Global Initiatives in Agrometeorology (GIAM) Global Centres of Research and Excellence in AgroMeteorology (GCREAM) Global Federation of AgroMeteorological Societies (GlobalFAMS) WAMIS Next Phase Global Alliance of Phenology Observation Network (GAPON) Global AgroMeteorological Outlook System (GAMOS) Global AgroMeteorological Pilot Projects (GAMPP)

18 CAgM Partnerships FAO and WFP World Farmer s Organization (WFO) AGRHYMET and ACMAD EUMETSAT and WMO RTCs United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COST Actions of the European Science Foundation Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

19 GFCS and CAgM GIAM Components GFCS User Interface Platform (UIP) Climate Services Information System (CSIS) Research, Modeling and Prediction Observations and Monitoring Capacity Building CAgM GIAM Global Federation of AgroMeteorological Societies (GlobalFAMS) WAMIS Next Phase WAMIS Next Phase WAMIS Next Phase Global AgroMeteorological Outlook System (GAMOS) Global Alliance of Phenology Observation Network (GAPON) Global AgroMeteorological Outlook System (GAMOS) Global AgroMeteorological Pilot Projects (GAMPP) Global Centres of Research and Excellence in AgroMeteorology (GCREAM)

20 Priorities Agriculture Disaster risk reduction Water Health Energy

21 Early implementation Focus of activities in Burkina Faso, Dominica, Tanzania, Bhutan, Papua New Guinea, Moldova Regional workshops for the most vulnerable countries South East Asia, Caribbean, South West Pacific, Latin America, South East Europe, Middle East and North Africa 21 Weather Climate

22 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 2016 developed user requirements based on the needs of selected GFCS countries

23 Use of sub seasonal forecasts in applications Growing, and urgent, requirement for the employment of subseasonal predictions for a wide range of societal and economic applications which include: Warnings of the likelihood of severe high impact weather (droughts, flooding, wind storms etc.) to help protect life and property Humanitarian Planning and Response to disasters Agriculture particularly in developing countries e.g. wheat and rice production Disease planning/control e.g. malaria, dengue and meningitis River flow for flood prediction, hydroelectric power generation and reservoir management for example

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26 Passing Away of Prof Kees Stigter CAgM vice president ( ) and president ( ) Dutch principal delegate in CAgM ( ) Founding President of the International Society for Agricultural Meteorology Died on 20 May 2016 in Indonesia (76 years old). He is survived by his wife Jaqui and his four children Joo Yon, Fardo, Chaim and Tibor

27 Thank you