Climate Change Issues in Sri Lanka – Volume 3

Series: Environment & Climate Change

The third issue of IPS’ climate change magazine is a special issue, focusing on ‘Bridging Information and Communication Gaps for Effective Adaptation Decisions: Integrated Climate Information Management System (ICIMS)’. It shares the experience and knowledge gathered from the joint project on ICIMS. The articles discuss diverse issues covered in the research project such as climate information products, indigenous climate knowledge and predictions, scientific weather forecast products, farmers’ climate information needs and demand-side issues, community-based rainfall stations and index-based insurance, technical challenges of communication of CIPs, and the importance of climate-smart agriculture for ensuring food security.