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From Analysis to Action

Understanding climate change impacts and adaptation options for

global centres of cocao, coffee and tea production.

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  • #extensionist
  • #climate data visualization
  • #change map
  • #adaptation options

What is this platform for?

Provide localized climate data and translate it into actionable advice: Welcome to our platform, which is designed to enable field officers and extensionists to better understand site-specific climate-change impacts and future-oriented climate-adaptation options. Our innovative tool provides you with the ability to visualize geospatial climate data that is site-specific, understand the risks and threats to coffee, cocoa and tea, to explore adaptation options, and to decide on a climate adaptation strategy and elaborate a specific adaptation plan for your farmers. Thereby, we support you in ensuring future farm productivity and farmers’ livelihoods under climate change and taking a forward looking and data-driven approach. Follow our 5-step approach to start your journey towards climate resilient farming.

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Using the platform is free of charge. The data and list of practices can be stored online or downloaded as a pdf report for offline use, providing you with flexibility and convenience in accessing the information needed.

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Data is available for the following countries:

  • West Africa: Côte d’Ivoire (Cocoa), Ghana (Cocoa), Nigeria (Cocoa), Cameroon (Cocoa)
  • East Africa: Kenya (Coffee and Tea), Uganda (Coffee and Tea)
  • Central America (see aCLIMAtar Central America)
  • South America (cocoa: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru)

The platform displays past, current (as of data available July 2023) and projected future (mid-century) climatic data to enable climate adaptation planning and visualize the already ongoing processes of climate change.

…aCLIMAtar should become a central tool when planning your interventions, as decisions taken today will have long lasting effects in the future. Extension work should be future oriented and take climate change into account, and this platform can be one of the central resources to obtain climatic mid- to long-term projections. The platform also helps to establish climate adaptation as a transversal process that relates to all aspects of the farming system. Thereby, when conducting for example a workshop on Integrated pest-management, you will be able to interrelate it with the future climatic projections for your area of interest.
…you can use aCLIMAtar to locate your farm and visualize historic climate trends and future climate predictions for your region. As decisions taken today will have long lasting effects in the future, climate change should be taken into account when planning any intervention and strategically managing your farm.
… aCLIMAtar will allow you to visualize projections of likely future climate trajectories that farms in a given region will face. Results from the climate analysis should be taken into account when planning interventions. Climate adaptation and resilience should be established as a transversal element as it relates to all farm action and decision making (e.g., IPM, fertilizer management, farm renovation planning, …). Practices suggested can be promoted by organizing specific climate adaptation workshops or by teaching climate-smart practices throughout the normal extension work, e.g., when advising on establishment or harvest management. Knowing the different adaptation zones, you should also work towards creating the enabling environment needed so that local farmers are empowered to make informed climate adaptation choices and are supported in their climate adaptation journey.