Climate Resilience for Women Smallholder Farmers in Ghana

Syecomp. Rice Farmer Client in Volta Region

Smallholder women farmers are often the most exposed to climate shocks yet have limited access to the information and services they need to anticipate, adapt, and take action. Ghana’s present early-warning climate information systems has inherent systemic weaknesses limiting its effectiveness: Warning for rural and peri-urban location climate-induced flash floods and other hazards require access to Climate Data Services (CDS), real-time and high resolution rainfall data in space and time, as well as detailed flood and hazard models. Unfortunately, majority of Ghana’s farming communities are data scarce, with no ground radars and digital elevation maps generally coarse. Smallholder women farmers are heavily constrained in finding a workable solution around this.

In 2025, Syecomp is doubling down to correct this structural inequality by fully incorporating women farmers needs into its bundled digital farmer and financial services (DFFS) bundle. Syecomp will invest $169,000 in additional cloud compute with multiple open-source dataset and in-situ data to further enrich its rainfall forecasting. As the leading private sector provider of localized weather and climate information (WCIS) and Climate Data Services in Africa, this is expected to be of huge benefit to women farmers and several other stakeholders.

At Syecomp, we believe climate services for the agriculture sector rely on quality climate data which should be packaged and communicated in a way to be accessible and useful for women farmers in making decisions about seasonal planting and adapting to long-term climate change.

For further enquiries and partnerships, email: weather@syecomp.com