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US$7 million WFP grant to provide farmers with local climate info
View(s):By Kapila Bandara
Disadvantaged farmers are expected to benefit from a food security initiative by the World Food Programme, which will help them adapt to unusual weather patterns by providing practical local weather and climate information for them to make farming decisions.
The WFP is providing a US$7 million (Rs 2.05 billion) grant to Sri Lanka for five years starting October and is implementing the project
‘Adaptation for Resilience’ with collaboration from India, which will also receive US$7 million.
Farmers have been chosen from the districts of Moneragala (Kataragama, Sevanagala, and Thanamalwila Divisional Secretariat), Kurunegala (Maho, Nikaweratiya, Rasnayakapura DS), Trincomalee (Kantale, Kinniya, Kuchchaveli, and Muttur DS), Vavuniya DS, Mannar (Madhu, Mannar Town DS), and Mullaitivu (Maritimepattu DS).
In a statement, WFP Sri Lanka deputy country director Gerard Rebello said building resilience would not only safeguard lives and livelihoods, but also ensure food security.
The capacity to provide climate-related services at the local level, or ‘last mile’ as the WFP calls it, will be strengthened so that specific, practical, and timely information is made available to farmers. ‘Last mile’ is a term that describes the critical final step in transport planning.
Experiences of Sri Lankan and Indian farmers will be shared.
WFP provides climate information and products, such as agro-meteorological bulletins and crop weather calendars, to help manage climate-related risks.
WFP also helps to strengthen the capacity of national meteorological services to co-produce climate information.
Among other capacity-building initiatives, the WFP, in collaboration with the Department of Meteorology, enabled near real-time monitoring of climate information through the Platform for Real-time Impact and Situation Monitoring.
The system, adapted to Sri Lanka, automatically pulls satellite products, processes them, and makes the outputs available in a dashboard along with data on where vulnerable people and assets are located, WFP information explains.
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