Introductory part

Abstract

Applied agrometeorology should not start with agrometeorology but with the conditions of where it should be applied. Because such conditions in the livelihood of farmers differ tremendously even within a sub-region of a country and between farming systems in that same sub-region, we have always to deal with case studies (Stigter 1988a, 1992; Mungai et al. 1996; Stigter 2006a, 2009a; WMO 2010). We came to that same conclusion also again in a recent international consultative meeting in India on curricula in agrometeorology at all levels (WMO 2009). © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.