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Multi-decadal climate services help farmers assess and manage future risks

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  • Yuwan Malakar

    (CSIRO Environment)

  • Stephen Snow

    (CSIRO Environment)

  • Aysha Fleming

    (CSIRO Environment)

  • Simon Fielke

    (CSIRO Environment)

  • Emma Jakku

    (CSIRO Environment)

  • Carly Tozer

    (CSIRO Environment)

  • Rebecca Darbyshire

    (CSIRO Agriculture and Food)

Abstract

Climate services can support on-farm decisions, yet this potential is currently not fully realized. Here, using a participatory qualitative risk analysis framework, we introduced 24 Australian farmers to My Climate View, an Australian online, multi-decadal climate service, and asked them to identify, assess and discuss management of long-term risks in light of its projections. We found that multi-decadal projections can help farmers to better understand future climate risks, potentially reducing the psychological distance of climate change. The use of long-term climate projections, however, can be impeded by lack of confidence in data, so leveraging the expertise of trusted service providers may help boost farmers’ confidence. Finally, though climate services providing multi-decadal projections can help farmers to identify future climate risks, they require interactive and recurring engagement to turn awareness into action.

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  • Yuwan Malakar & Stephen Snow & Aysha Fleming & Simon Fielke & Emma Jakku & Carly Tozer & Rebecca Darbyshire, 2024. "Multi-decadal climate services help farmers assess and manage future risks," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 14(6), pages 586-591, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:14:y:2024:i:6:d:10.1038_s41558-024-02021-2
    DOI: 10.1038/s41558-024-02021-2
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