Investigacion interdisciplinaria para mejorar la provision de informacion para la toma de decisiones crn 3107

This executive summary describes an interdisciplinary project aimed at improving climate information systems to support public decision-making regarding drought response and food security in Guatemala.

• Analysis of planning and budget processes involving government departments, 11 mayors, and 36 farmer community councils indicates that priority is placed on distributing seeds, fertilizer, and food to smallholder farmers to ensure food security. While officials use the "Zero Hunger Programme" to identify high-impact drought areas and allocate funds, there is a disconnect regarding how mayors prioritize and implement projects, which sometimes fail to meet community needs.
• An emergency drill simulation used to evaluate institutional drought response revealed several systemic weaknesses: data collection time is too limited, there are insufficient field personnel to gather representative data, and there is a lack of standardization in surveys, sampling techniques, and damage definition criteria among extension agents. The simulation also highlighted that local inter-institutional coordination is essential and that extension agents evaluate field situations directly with farmers.
• The project identifies significant barriers to the use of climate information by small-scale farmers, including a lack of access to such information, a lack of skills required to utilize it, and a general lack of trust in the information provided.
• The project aims to create an interdisciplinary methodology to design a platform that provides tailored, timely, and integrated climate information to decision-makers. This approach combines social and biophysical sciences, utilizing ethnographic participant observation and surveys to assess information needs and evaluate the effect of information packages on concrete decisions regarding food security and agricultural development.

APA

van Etten, J., Bonifaz, E. P., Correa, S. A., & Mora, V. (2024). Investigacion interdisciplinaria para mejorar la provision de informacion para la toma de decisiones crn 3107. Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. https://iai.int/en/investigacion-interdisciplinaria-para-mejorar-la-provision-de-informacion-para-la-toma-de-decisiones-crn-3107/

Chicago

van Etten, Jacob, Eduardo Prudencio Bonifaz, Sara Aristizabal Correa, and Vesalio Mora. Investigacion interdisciplinaria para mejorar la provision de informacion para la toma de decisiones crn 3107. Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, 2024. https://iai.int/en/investigacion-interdisciplinaria-para-mejorar-la-provision-de-informacion-para-la-toma-de-decisiones-crn-3107/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{vanetten2024investigacion, author = {van Etten, Jacob and Bonifaz, Eduardo Prudencio and Correa, Sara Aristizabal and Mora, Vesalio}, title = {{Investigacion interdisciplinaria para mejorar la provision de informacion para la toma de decisiones crn 3107}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2024}, month = sep, url = {https://iai.int/en/investigacion-interdisciplinaria-para-mejorar-la-provision-de-informacion-para-la-toma-de-decisiones-crn-3107/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }