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Improving coping strategies with weather and climate risks in monocropping very often demands the use of science in reducing limiting production factors (e.g. Fischer et al. 2002; ARS 2006; Sivakumar and Motha 2007; Stern 2007). One initiative are the Land Allocation Decision Support Systems (Rivington et al. 2006; LADSS 2007), that assist in investigations of policy impacts and environmental change impacts on land-use systems.
PASOLAC (Programa para la Agricultura Sostenible en las Laderas de América Central), operating in Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador since 1992, aims to increase agricultural productivity of hillside plantations through improved soil and water management (Scott 2000). The National Meteorological Services Agency in Ethiopia draws on local knowledge of the two rainy seasons, as well as on forecasts by international organizations (Orlove and Tosteson 1999).
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Stigter, K. (2010). Improving Coping Strategies with Weather and Climate Risks in Agricultural Production, Including the Improved Use of Insurance Approaches: Monocropping. In: Stigter, K. (eds) Applied Agrometeorology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74698-0_26
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