Integrated Information Dissemination System for Coastal Agricultural Community

Authors

Firoz A., Huq N., Ribbe L.

Reference

Springer Water, pp. 735-747, 2021

Description

Smallholder farmers in the coastal zone are particularly vulnerable to the increasing impacts of salinity and salinity related problems stemming from climate change impacts. Availability of climatic information offers great potentials for informed decision making by farmers at the face of increasing uncertainty for their agricultural production system. This is also true for other related stakeholders such as policy makers. The key research question therefore addresses “how can we better inform different stakeholders through managing information to enhance the adaptive capacity of the community at the saline prone region?”. Answering such question is not straight forward due to its multifaceted nature and the involvement of diverse knowledge architectures which prevail at different social and technical scales. While scientific models, data and results are a specialist concern with its own body of evidence within the scientific community, the interface to bring that scientific information to the local level arguably unlocks new potential to mitigate global food security challenges in a changing environment. Translating scientific information to the community level is an emerging area of research. We have developed a methodological framework which focuses mainly on how scientific data and information can be transcribed to the salinity affected community at multiple levels, so that all stakeholders can take optimal benefit from the information flow. This is a proposed research project, which has been submitted for obtaining funds from the German Ministry of Education and Research. The project will be implemented in coastal Bangladesh where salinity is the key issue for food production.

Link

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-54612-4_54