UN Climate Technology Centre & Network (CTCN) 181d ago

Climate change threatens Nepal’s agriculture sector, in particular threats of increasing floods and droughts. The agriculture sector employs over two-thirds of the labor force and contributes to roughly one-third of the country's GDP. There is an urgent need to increase adoption of early warning systems to reinforce climate resilience in order to reduce climate change-induced loss of agricultural productivity. This project customizes weather and climate information issued by the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology in Nepal to the needs of local farmers. It supports the development of an application programming interface for the automatic dissemination of location-specific customized 3-day weather forecasts to farmers in user-friendly language using mobile and internet-based SMS. Learn more about this project in this video