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Of the examples of agrometeorological services for developing countries, distinguished under ten headings as recently reviewed (e.g. Stigter 2008c; WMO 2010), almost all products developed with focused scientific support are just the seeds sown for the development of actual agrometeorological services in an extension approach (Stigter 2009). But we want to get to a situation in which, in a “farmer first paradigm” (e.g. Chambers et al. 1989; Winarto 2007), livelihood problems and farmer decision-making needs can guide the bottom-up design of actual services. Services based on products generated by operational support systems in which understanding of farmer livelihood conditions and innovations have been used (Stigter 2008a). We have developed in the last decade a good idea of what is needed to develop such agrometeorological services from scientific products generated by National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), Research Institutes and Universities (KNMI 2009). But what we need is institutionalization of science supported establishment and validation of such services (Stigter 2009).
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Stigter, K. (2010). Introduction to Part II (INSAM Examples). In: Stigter, K. (eds) Applied Agrometeorology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74698-0_2
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