National Agricultural Drought Watch
Nepal
ICIMOD is developing an integrated information platform linking weather and climate data with agriculture practices in the region. The platform provides data analysis support to professionals responsible for developing agro-met advisories for government agencies and farmers. The National Agricultural Drought Watch: Nepal developed at ICIMOD, under the SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) Initiative, provides information on the in-season drought situation and outlook. The system provides baselines on crop type maps and farming practices calendars valid at the district level, and multiple indices – evapotranspiration, precipitation rate, standardized precipitation index, soil moisture, and temperature – for droughts and seasonal weather outlooks at the national and regional levels. These can inform short- to medium-term agri-advisories. Users can already explore historical time-series data on the five indices over 18 years aggregated in decadal, monthly, and quarterly sets. The system will soon roll out three- to six-month forecast abilities.
Lead (category)
Multi-partners
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery
ICT products/solutions and services by category
Digital Agriculture
Non ICT products and services (deliverables)
Business and governance structure
DI ICT-deliverables format
Web-based platform
Mobile applications
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
Agribusiness / private organization
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully functional. Institutional-governance structure in place
Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries
Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)
National
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution