Syecomp Partners with USAID/Market Systems for Resilience Activity for Climate Information Services
Farmer Onboarding-Team Syecomp
In Ghana, extreme weather risks events are occurring frequently and it is taking a huge toll on agriculture in Ghana. Agriculture is a major source of income and sustenance for millions of farm families. However, extreme weather events driven by climate change have depleted the natural resources available for agriculture, resulting in limited water access, poor farming conditions and resource conflicts. This depletion has severely impacted families' livelihoods and food security, compromising their ability to earn income and feed themselves.
In Ghana's Volta basin channel, rainfall variability driven by climate change has reduced food crop yield and livestock weight gain resulting in lower incomes for smallholder farmers and pastoralists and worsening their nutritional status, ultimately undermining local food security. Additionally, early-warning failures resulted in droughts, flooding and adversely affected food, land, water systems.
In a quest to address this at scale, Syecomp has partnered with USAID Market Systems and Resilience (MSR) Activity led by ACDI-VOCA to enable access to climate information services via multi-modal channels (USSD, Voice, SMS, and WhatsApp) for 51,960 smallholder farmers across USAID Zone of Influence regions with 55 per cent women and youth farmers targeted as project beneficiaries.
This activity will utilize satellite image data and in-situ weather stations data to process and disseminate digital climate information via ClimAgri platform to help farmers and agriSMEs adapt to climate variability and reduce agricultural risks. By providing near real-time weather forecasts, climate trends, and agricultural best practices, this activity aims to improve farmers' decision-making, leading to increased productivity and reduced losses due to climate-related events.
Syecomp’s ClimAgri digital service aims to complement the works of in-country meteorological departments to enable key actors in the agricultural value chain benefit from early warning against weather and climate-related events.