The Climate Risk Planning & Managing Tool for Development Programmes in the Agriculture & Food Sector (CRISP) project aims to develop a climate risk tool that considers the specific characteristics of agriculture and agricultural land use systems.
The tool is freely available, quick and simple to use, interactive and web-based for use by agricultural and rural development project planners and managers. The tool is strongly based on the impact chain method developed by the Eurac Climate and Disaster Research Group and published in the Vulnerability Sourcebook and its Risk Supplement (Zebisch et al., 2014 and GIZ and EURAC, 2017). The tool website provides links to a range of external tools and databases that can be used for more in-depth analysis of specific actions.
The new Climate Risk Planning & Managing Tool for development programmes in agri-food systems (CRISP) was launched at the Adaptation Futures Conference in Montreal. Eurac Research’s Center for Climate Change and Transformation has been working closely with the Alliance for Bioversity and CIAT, the Free University of Bolzano/Bozen and GIZ (German Development Cooperation), with financial support from BMZ (German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development).
The envisaged tool provides an entry point for agricultural and rural development projects for an initial, simple and quick exploration of climate implications. Eurac has used its expertise in the impact chain methodology to understand the relevant climate risks for agriculture in the context of this project. Eurac’s objective was to design and implement impact chains in the agricultural sector that are to a certain degree standardised and can be flexibly adapted to user’s needs.
CRISP is a free, quick and simple to use, interactive web-based tool designed to support and build capacities of agri-food development programs to integrate climate risks into their project design and implementation.