Strengthening agro-climatic monitoring, analysis, communication and use of data and information for decision-making and food security in the agricultural sector in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

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Strengthening agro-climatic monitoring, analysis, communication and use of data and information for decision-making and food security in the agricultural sector in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic

SAMIS PROJECT / Component 1

Year of publication 2019

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) The leaflet present the activities of the first component of the project “Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information Systems (SAMIS) to improve adaptation to climate change and food security in Lao PDR”. The component, implemented in strict collaboration with the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, is titled “Strengthening agro-climatic monitoring, analysis, communication and use of data and information for decision making in agriculture and food security”. The activities includes the installment of agro-meteorological stations, the setup of a Laboratory for agro-meteorological analysis and instrument calibration, the implementation of the Laos Climate Services in Agriculture (LaCSA) system for modelling and distribution of climate services to farmers, and the facilitation of a process to ensure national Standard Operation Procedure are followed.

Language English

Also available in:

Lao

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Terminal evaluation of the project "Strengthening agroclimatic monitoring and information systems to improve adaptation to climate change and food security in the Lao People's Democratic Republic"
Project code: GCP/LAO/021/LDF - GEF ID 5462
2024

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The project focused on technical innovation to strengthen efforts to build climate resilience of smallholder producers. The project, beyond original expectations, generated an agroecological zoning modelling tool (pyAEZ) of global relevance. The project achieved many of its outputs, some of which went beyond the indicators and exceeded targets for coverage. Securing co-financing (and engaging other actors in complementary efforts) was very successful. The network of weather stations was improved along with establishing a laboratory for calibration of the sensors of the automatic weather station (AWS), and the Lao Climate Service for Agriculture (LaCSA), a decision-making tool developed by the project to provide agrometeorological advisories and early warnings. The project was found to have made a significant contribution to strengthening agroclimatic monitoring and information systems to improve adaptation to climate change and food security.
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Strengthening Agro-Climatic Monitoring and Information Systems in Lao People’s Democratic Republic - GCP/LAO/021/LDF 2023

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The main problem to be addressed by the Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information Systems (SAMIS) project was the lack of human and institutional capacity to monitor and analyseclimate variability and climate change impacts in the agricultural sector in both near-real time and the future. The project responded to this problem by providing solutions of a technical nature that were new or unknown to beneficiaries and stakeholders. The project had two objectives: i) to enhance at national and provincial levels, monitoring, analysis, communication and the use of agrometeorological data and information for decision-making in relation to agriculture and food security; and ii) to improve the monitoring and analysis of agricultural production systems by strengthening land resources information management systems through the development of a Land Resources Information Management System (LRIMS) and agroecological zoning (AEZ) to support agricultural policies and climate-change adaptation.
Book (stand-alone)
Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information Systems (SAMIS) to improve adaptation to climate change and food security in the Lao People's Democratic Republic (GCP/LAO/021/LDF)
ArcGIS training material
2020

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Lao

The project Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information Systems to improve adaptation to climate change and food security in Lao People's Democratic Republic, has arranged training on basic and advanced geographic information systems (GIS) for the staff of the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology and of the Department of Agricultural Land Management in Lao PDR. The folder contains the training materials for materials prepared by the Asian Institute Technology.