Weather forecasting and monitoring: mobile solutions for climate resilience

This report explores new use cases for weather monitoring and forecasting via mobile, and advocates for increasing focus and investment from mobile network operators (MNOs), value added service (VAS) providers and donors in enabling technologies that can provide more localised and accurate services. In the field of agricultural value added services (Agri VAS), the article discusses localised forecasts enabled by improved weather modelling techniques; services that provide weather adaptive agronomic advice; and services that provide climate smart agronomic advice for climate adaptation, mitigation and food security. In the field of agricultural mobile financial services (Agri MFS), it focuses on weather index insurance products (WII) that protect crops against exposure to weather calamities.