Fig. 5: A schematic showing the scope of multi-decadal climate services.
From: Multi-decadal climate services help farmers assess and manage future risks
Climate services on their own are useful for risk identification but require interactive and recurring engagement to be made actionable through assessing and managing future climate risks. Interactive activities help build focused relationships between advisors and farmers, which is a foundation for building trust in institutions and confidence in data for farmers to act on. This systematic discussion of risk identification, assessment and management allowed the conversation to develop in a way that each step relied on the outcome of the previous step. This ‘guided discussion’ process would benefit from the expertise of professionals working directly with farmers through existing research and extension services, who have additional place-based knowledge and insight into farmers’ personal situations36,47.
