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Rwanda: Smallholder farmers say access to climate information bearing fruit

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By Eddie Nsabimana

A visiting Tanzanian delegation on Wednesday toured Bugesera District where they interacted with smallholder farmers who are using climate information to inform their day-to-day decisions on their agriculture activities.

The group was in Rwanda on a two-day study tour during which they visited farmers in Gashora Sector in Bugesera to witness firsthand the impact of weather-related information on farming activities.

A four-year project dubbed ‘Climate Services for Agriculture’ that’s being implemented by Collaboration International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), in partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources,  is helping farmers to use Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) information via their phones to make key farming decisions.

The system is backed by Rwanda Meteorological Agency ensuring that smallholder farmers access real-time climate-related information as part of broader efforts to build resilience to climate change.

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Themes Climate change Food security and agriculture
Country and region Rwanda

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