S2S Forecasting Initiative (Under S2S4Agri Project)
Bangladesh
Developed by Weather Impact under S2S4Agri Project, the S2S Forecasting Initiative provides agronomical advisory services to Bangladeshi farmers. It provides weather forecasts for the next 4 weeks with an indication of the weather on a weekly time scale. These forecasts fall between the conventional short term forecasts (up to 10 days ahead) and monthly or seasonal forecasts and are at the forefront of the current science and not yet widely used. Weather Impact assists BMD and DAE in the development and use of these type of forecasts. The S2S timeframe contains potentially valuable information for famers including monsoon start early or late, indications for extreme rainfall and chances on a cold wave coming etc. The most important component of the initiative is to sustain the newly developed services by providing capacity building trainings provided by Weather Impact and WEnR to use the system.
Lead (category)
Private company
Name of initiative lead (and partners)
Weather Impact Ltd.
Categories of Digital initiative deliverables
Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery
ICT products/solutions and services by category
Digital Agriculture
Non ICT products and services (deliverables)
Business and governance structure
Being implemented by Weather Impact BV (a private company operating from The Netherlands which specialized in delivering tailored weather forecasts and agricultural advice) in cooperation with Wageningen Environmental Research (WEnR) and Digital Innovation for Impact. It supports Bangladesh's Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD). It is part of the Agro-Meteorological Information Systems Development Project (AMISDP) which is funded by The World Bank.
DI ICT-deliverables format
Mobile applications
Web-based platform
Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)
Farmers
Agribusiness / private organization
Extension agents
Government
Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders
Digital Initiative development Stage
Fully functional. Institutional-governance structure in place
Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries
Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)
National
All over Bangladesh
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
Link to Digital village
Link to Digital solution