Effective seasonal climate forecast applications: examining constraints for subsistence farmers in Zimbabwe

By Anthony G. Patt, C. Gwata. 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change

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Creating usable science: Opportunities and constraints for climate knowledge use and their implications for science policy (2011, background): “In contrast, factors such as distrust, misunderstanding, and perceived irrelevance can be countered by developing processes that build relationships and social capital among the different parties involved (McNie, 2007; Patt and Gwata, 2002).”
Is rainfall really changing? Farmers’ perceptions, meteorological data, and policy implications (2013, background): “Patt and Gwata (2002) show that farmers who receive training and are able to question meteorological experts and interrogate forecasts, interpret and respond more successfully to meteorological information than those who simply receive weather forecasts through one-way communications.”
Innovations in Climate Risk Management: Protecting and Building Rural Livelihoods in a Variable and Changing Climate (2007, background): “…December 2007 | Volume 4 | Issue 1 prediction at the seasonal lead time.3 First, because seasonal forecasts match the period between the many climatesensitive decisions that must be made prior to planting, and harvest when outcomes of those decisions are realized, they expand the realm of…”
Agent-based social simulation: a method for assessing the impact of seasonal climate forecast applications among smallholder farmers (2005, background): “The credibility of the forecast, which will determine the amount of trust users place in the forecast, is partly determined by past skill and partly by forecast communicators’ reputations (Patt, 2000, 2001; Patt and Gwata, 2002).”
Climate variability and rural livelihoods: assessing the impact of seasonal climate forecasts in Lesotho (2003, background): “…and developing countries of the utility of seasonal forecasts (Klopper 1999; CVAP 2000; Hammer et al. 2000; Plant 2000; Phillips et al. 2001; Patt and Gwata 2002), there is also evidence to show that forecasts are not always as useful as anticipated (Pulwarty and Redmond 1997; Pffaf et…”
How do small-holder farmers understand insurance, and how much do they want it? Evidence from Africa. (2010, background): “Researchers have, with generally good results, examined a variety of communication and decision-support systems to overcome these barriers, including the promotion of stakeholder networks (Ziervogel and Downing, 2004), discussion groups (Phillips and Orlove, 2004), expert workshops (Patt and Gwata, ”
Does climate policy need probabilities (2003, background): “Patt and Gwata (2002) identified six constraints limiting the usefulness of forecasts: credibility, legitimacy, scale, cognitive capacity, procedural and institutional barriers, and available choices.”
Assessing vulnerabilities to the effects of global change: an eight step approach (2005, background): “The ZFA project grew out of an attempt to understand the usefulness of seasonal climate forecasts to subsistence farmers (Patt and Gwata, 2002), and whether adaptive behavior is facilitated by increasing the detail of forecasts (Patt, 2001).”
Barriers to climate change adaptation: evidence from northeast Ghana in the context of a systematic literature review (2015, background): “In Zimbabwe, Patt and Gwata (2002) reported that the usefulness of seasonal forecasts may be limited by issues relating to credibility, scale, cognitive capacity and legitimacy as well as institutional and procedural barriers.”
Adaptive capacity and human cognition: The process of individual adaptation to climate change (2005, methodology): “The background of this study is presented in more detail in Patt and Gwata (2002).”
Using Expert Judgment to Assess Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change: Evidence From a Conjoint Choice Survey (2005, neutral): “…numerous effects on human health, but that in this survey we would like them to focus on three, namely (i) deaths and injuries associated with floods and landslides caused by sustained rains or extreme weather events, (ii) cardiovascular or respiratory illnesses and deaths during heat…”
Countering the Loading-Dock Approach to Linking Science and Decision Making (2006, background): “…gray literature (e.g., agency reports, workshop proceedings, etc.) as well as material from Web sites.2 As noted below, the two case studies are not perfectly comparable because of vast differences in the regions, but we are able to glean qualitative lessons from examining differences between them.”