Abstract
The impacts of climate change on agriculture are accelerating at an unprecedented pace and adaptation actions should not lag behind. Improving adaptation capacity at different levels requires close collaboration among different stakeholders to experience and disseminate best practises and knowledge. However, there are very limited instruments and resources engaging various stakeholders for collaborative action for climate change adaptation in Turkish agriculture. Conventional ways of agricultural dissemination activities have been mainly based on face-to-face meetings and the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted dissemination and monitoring activities for a long while. On the other hand, the pandemic also showed that digital technologies would be highly beneficial for remote management of production and knowledge during the times of crisis. The purpose of the project is to enhance informed decision making for climate resilient agriculture through a well-connected network and platform in Turkey. The project combines a social network and a digital platform to improve communication and dissemination of knowledge on climate resilient agriculture strategies, policies and practices and provide a common ground for collaborative working of different stakeholders. The platform also benefits from citizen science through a smartphone app that allows collecting real time climate related crop loss data, which feeds into the vulnerability mapping tool on the platform. The vulnerability map is an evidence- based decision making support tool to optimize the limited resources for adaptation. The network and the platform will help farmers and the other stakeholder to learn from other’s experience, share their success stories and build collaborations for improving their capacities.
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Presentation Type
Theme
Technical, Political, and Social Responses
KEYWORDS
Climate Change Adaptation, Agriculture, Networks and Platforms, Vulnerability Mapping, Dissemiantion
