Colloquium Fiona van de Burgt (WeatherImpact)
Weather Impact – practical weather and climate services for the agricultural sector
Weather Impact is a Dutch company that provides agribusinesses with easy to access, reliable weather and climate information. Our mission is to support farmers to optimize global food production and reduce the impact of climate change. The company is young and growing; more than 50% of the employees have an IMAU-background. A good reason to present in this IMAU-colloquium our work; how we apply our IMAU-knowledge to support the agricultural sector becoming more climate resilient. Fiona will tell about her experiences in the company over the past 5 years. How to translate terabytes of ensemble weather forecast data in an understandable text message in Swahili, so a Kenyan farmer can better decide when to start planting? How can climate model projections support the financial sector becoming more climate resilient? And how to overcome the challenge of scarce ground-truthing climate data in rural Africa?
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