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METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE, JAMAICA J AMAICA S D ROUGHT TOOL Glenroy Brown 10 th May 2017 Acknowledge Our Champions JMS RADA CIMH IRI USAID PROBLEM. Local Context Jamaicas agricultural sector accounts about 7% of the

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JAMAICA’S DROUGHT TOOL

Glenroy Brown 10th May 2017

METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE, JAMAICA

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Acknowledge Our Champions

  • JMS
  • RADA
  • CIMH
  • IRI
  • USAID
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PROBLEM…. Local Context

  • Jamaica’s agricultural sector accounts about

7% of the island’s GDP and employs about 20% of the workforce.

  • Agriculture in Jamaica is largely rain-fed

(94%) especially for small farmers. Changes in rainfall pattern.

  • Forecast for longer and more frequent

droughts by 2050.

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Forecast demonstrate the requisite skills needed for delivering trustworthy and reliable forecast skill

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Bottom Up Approach

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LI LIFE E WITHO HOUT UT THE D HE DROU OUGHT HT TOO OOL NOT OT AB ABLE LE T TO SE O SEE E THI HINGS S CLE LEAR ARLY LY

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SE SEE E THI HINGS S A A LI LITTLE LE BIT CLE LEAR ARER ER LI LIFE E WITH T H THE D HE DROU OUGHT HT TOO OOL

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  • Threat of Climate Change demands a more

thorough approach in providing climate services.

  • We build on our experiences in providing weather

and climate information to create customized services, like the drought tool, targeted at specific users.

  • In this way, the Drought Tool make it possible to

incorporate science-based information into policies and practice to achieve real benefits for

  • ur stakeholders (farmers).

Our Approach to delivering the best Drought Tool

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RESPONSE

  • Effective – Providing drought information at

the community levels

  • Efficient – Providing timely drought

information to inform decision making

  • Essential – Develop a drought tool that is

absolutely necessary and extremely important to the end users, (farmers)

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In 2014 the Jamaica Meteorological Service together with Rural Agriculture Development Agency (RADA) developed a drought tool that is now been used to

  • fficially declared drought across island.

2014, we also trained experts from across the region through Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) How Did the Met Office Respond

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Seasonal Drought Forecast (SPI)

http://jamaicaclimate.net

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http://jamaicaclimate.net

Seasonal Drought Forecast (3D Map)

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FREE SMS DROUGHT ALERT (For all farmers in our database)

We realize that many of our user especially our farmers will not be able to access the report due to lack of internet. Therefore we develop a free SMS text message system to send the drought information to our users who don’t have access to the internet.

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Impact of Drought and of Drought Information Service in Jamaica among sampled farmers

2014 production 2014 production, farmers with climate risk 2014 production, farmers with climate risk, farmer forum

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2013 production 2014 production, farmers with climate risk, farmer forum + text message

Impact of the Drought

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Take Away Message

The Met Office will continue to be a champion for climate service in Jamaica and the region. Will continue to work with the farming communities to reduce the impacts of climate change on the sector by developing more climate smart early warning tools.