Digital tools for climate change adaptation and mitigation
KEY MESSAGES ◼ Digital tool functions for agricultural technical advice and performance assessment related to climate change adaptation and mitigation are limited. ◼ Tools for technical advice provided functions related to climate change adaptation more often than mitigation. Yet most tools (92%) addressed three or fewer climate change adaptation indicators. ◼ Technical advice with access to weather information or early warning systems for hazardous weather was the most common function of the tools analyzed. ◼ Performance assessment tools were predominantly GHG emission calculators. ◼ Features for inclusive communication with tool users (e.g., iconography, video or audio messages) included messaging (31% of tools) and voice and video (28%). ◼ Exemplary tool features for climate change adaptation and mitigation should inform future digital tool development for agriculture and food systems. ◼ Tools that provide coaching functions and support farmer input enable farmers to weigh the trade-offs of their decisions and add context on how to achieve and sustain change. ◼ Achieving scale for climate-informed digital tools does not just mean increasing farmers’ access to tools, but also supporting action recommendations in tools and identifying priority, large-scale impacts in terms of the level of climate risk mitigated and resilience built, or climate change mitigation achieved.
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| Format: | Brief biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2022-12-09
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| Subjects: | agroecology, food systems, smallholders-smallholder farmers, social inclusion, digital extension tools, digital technology, climate change, agroecología, sistemas alimentarios, pequeños agricultores, |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126002 |
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