Improving the issuing, absorption and use of climate forecast information in agricultural production: Multiple cropping

Abstract

Current rates of climate change may cause unpredictable consequences in the future (IPCC 2007). This unpredictability could severely threaten agricultural productivity and socio-economic equilibrium in many areas of the world where the direct use of natural resources is critical for sustaining the livelihoods of its stakeholders (Salinger et al. 2000). Ideally, agrometeorological advisories, including climate forecasts, should focus on coping mechanisms or contingency measures that protect farmers from present or future climate (Lin 2007). Starting Sect. III.2.5.(ε) it was stated that improving coping strategies with weather and climate risks in monocropping very often demands the use of the science of agrometeorology in reducing limitations of production factors (e.g. Fischer et al. 2002; Stigter 2006; Sivakumar and Motha 2007; Stern 2007). © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.