The suitability of existing open data weather data for agro-meteo advisory [Ethiopia]

Ceccarelli, Tomaso, Wit, Allard de and Rob Lokers, Rob. 2018. The suitability of existing open data weather data for agro-meteo advisory [Ethiopia]. ICT Update (87) 6.

Open data in the weather domain could address the information needs of agro-meteo farm advisory systems. However, is open data ‘fit-for-purpose'; does it match the needs of being reliable, relevant, timely and accessible? Some answers come from the CommonSense project targeting smallholder farmers in Ethiopia.