Droughts and floods in Malawi: impacts on crop production and the performance of sustainable land management practices under weather extremes

N McCarthy, T Kilic, J Brubaker, S Murray… - Environment and …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency of extreme weather events,
increasing the vulnerability of smallholder farmers dependent on rain-fed agriculture. We …

Co-creation of a Scalable Climate Service for Kenyan Smallholder Farmers

S van der Horst, H Goosen, M van Selm… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Climate change is already impacting the horticulture sector in Kenya. Even though the
effects of climate change will be severe, adaptation to climate change still has little priority at …

[HTML][HTML] Re-balancing climate services to inform climate-resilient planning–A conceptual framework and illustrations from sub-Saharan Africa

K Vincent, D Conway, AJ Dougill, J Pardoe… - Climate Risk …, 2020 - Elsevier
Making climate-resilient planning and adaptation decisions is, in part, contingent on the use
of climate information. Growing attention has been paid to the “usability gap” and the need to …

Perceived links between climate change and weather forecast accuracy: new barriers to tools for agricultural decision-making

Z Guido, S Lopus, K Waldman, C Hannah, A Zimmer… - Climatic Change, 2021 - Springer
The accuracy of weather forecasts has experienced remarkable improvements over the
recent decades and is now considered important tools for developing the climate resilience …

Reorienting climate decision making research for smallholder farming systems through decision science

KB Waldman, Z Guido, PM Todd, TP Evans… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Research into the social dimensions of climate decision making has proliferated in recent
years. This body of work is informed by principles from decision science and addresses …

Shelter from the storm? Household-level impacts of, and responses to, the 2015 floods in Malawi

N McCarthy, T Kilic, A De La Fuente… - Economics of disasters …, 2018 - Springer
As extreme weather events intensify due to climate change, it becomes ever more critical to
understand how vulnerable households are to these events and the mechanisms …

The value of local climate and weather information: An economic valuation of the decentralised meteorological provision in Kenya

S Barrett, W Ndegwa, G Maggio - Climate and Development, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The development of Sub-Saharan Africa will become increasingly constrained
by the acute climate sensitivity of livelihood practices. Weather and climate services can …

Co-designing indices for tailored seasonal climate forecasts in Malawi

N Mittal, E Pope, S Whitfield, J Bacon… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In central and southern Malawi, climate variability significantly impacts agricultural
production and food availability owing to a high dependence on rain-fed maize production …

Thunderstorm activity and extremes in Vietnam for the period 2015–2019

K Van Mai, TK Laurila, LP Hoang, T Duc Du, A Mäkelä… - Climate, 2022 - mdpi.com
Within a meteorological capacity building project in Vietnam, lightning location data and
manual (human-observed) thunderstorm day observations were analyzed for the period …

Communication structures and decision making cues and criteria to support effective drought warning in Central Malawi

A Calvel, M Werner, M van den Homberg… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Early warning systems trigger early action and enable better disaster preparedness. People-
centered dissemination and communication are pivotal for the effective uptake of early …