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Seasonal climate forecasts show skill in predicting winter chill for specialty crops in California

Communications Earth & Environment
Many fruits and nuts crops in California require sufficient winter chill to break dormancy, and insufficient chill can harm fruit quantity and quality. Early information on winter chill forecast can help growers prepare for a low chill year.
Prakash Kumar Jha, Tapan B. Pathak
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Developing the capacity of farmers to understand and apply seasonal climate forecasts through collaborative learning processes

, 2016
Purpose: This paper documents and evaluates collaborative learning processes aimed at developing farmer?s knowledge, skills and aspirations to use seasonal climate forecasting (SCF).
Coutts, Jeff, Cliffe, Neil, Mushtaq, Shahbaz, Stone, Roger, Reardon-Smith, Kathryn, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Queensland   +5 more
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Firm turnover under asymmetric information: Tanzania's agro‐dealer sector

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study firm turnover (i.e., entry and exit) and its consumer implications in a market characterized by asymmetric information. Using a three‐round census of agro‐dealers in Tanzania's Morogoro Region, we document annual firm entry and exit rates of 33% and 17%, respectively.
Alix Naugler, Hope Michelson, Sarah Janzen, Christopher Magomba   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of Coupled Model Forecasts of Ethiopian Highlands Summer Climate

Advances in Meteorology, 2014
This study evaluates seasonal forecasts of rainfall and maximum temperature across the Ethiopian highlands from coupled ensemble models in the period 1981–2006, by comparison with gridded observational products (NMA + GPCC/CRU3).
Mark R. Jury
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Publisher Correction: Malaria predictions based on seasonal climate forecasts in South Africa: A time series distributed lag nonlinear model. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2020
Kim Y, Ratnam JV, Doi T, Morioka Y, Behera S, Tsuzuki A, Minakawa N, Sweijd N, Kruger P, Maharaj R, Imai CC, Ng CFS, Chung Y, Hashizume M.   +13 more
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Making climate model forecasts more useful

, 2007
There is considerable potential for seasonal to inter-annual climate forecasts derived from dynamic models of the earth's climate to be used widely to help improve management of important real-world issues in a variety of different areas (e.g.
Power, S. B., Alford, P., Plummer, N., N. Plummer, P. Alford, S. B. Power   +5 more
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Information framing and the impact of nutrition label serving size change

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract The framing of information can significantly influence how consumers interpret and respond to it. This paper investigates how the change in serving sizes in Nutrition Facts Panel (NFP) affects consumer choices for carbonated soft drinks (CSD). We first estimate a reduced form difference‐in‐differences (DiD) model to document causal effects on ...
Yuxiang Zhang, Yizao Liu, Linlin Fan
wiley   +1 more source

Policy uncertainty shocks and farm investments in Europe: Evidence from a newspaper‐based index

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract In order to quantify the impact of agricultural policy uncertainty on European farmers' investment behavior, we construct a newspaper‐based monthly index of European agricultural policy uncertainty from 2013 to 2023. We use 327,224 newspaper articles to assess and compare the trends in policy uncertainty across five top agricultural producers ...
Viviana Garcia, Scott M. Swinton, Robert Finger   +2 more
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Climate Change Contribution to Seasonal Forecast Anomalies Using Constrained CMIP6 Projections

Atmospheric Science Letters
The climate anomalies predicted by real‐time seasonal forecasts are constructed with respect to a hindcast climatology over a past period. With climate change, the climatology no longer reflects current climate conditions, systematically biasing ...
Louis Ledoux‐‐Xatard, Damien Specq, Saïd Qasmi, Hervé Giordani   +3 more
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Incorporating indigenous knowledge systems-based climate services in anticipatory action in Zimbabwe: an ex-ante assessment

Frontiers in Climate
IntroductionThe success of anticipatory action (AA) in climate change related disaster risk reduction depends largely on the ability to accurately predict adverse weather events and to subsequently take appropriate and timely action. The current seasonal
Thulani Dube, Anna Lena Huhn, Gabriela Guimarães Nobre, Elisha Nyikadzino Moyo, Markus Enenkel   +4 more
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