Designing and selecting efficient early warning strategies and increasing their efficiencies for agroforestry farming systems

Abstract

Monitoring of environmental variables and provision of the derived information (see Box III.5.14) represents necessary support for decision making in agroforestry management and planning (Black et al. 2000). Information can hardly be used as a raw datum, but it needs to be analysed, processed and organised according to its final operational use. New approaches to agriculture seek to increase the application of agrometeorological information for the assessment of environmental risks (Orlandini et al. 2007), also based on the establishment of agrometeorological services (WMO 2010). © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.