S2S Forecasting Initiative (Under S2S4Agri Project)

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)

Main DI webpage

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution