The Laos Climate Services in Agriculture (LaCSA) system. LaCSA archives and processes agro-meteorological and climatological data. By means of such data, it interpolates and provides agro-meteorological services to end-users. The system generates and delivers agro-met services to farmers by analyzing the meteorological and crop cycle data. It produces seasonal forecast and seven days bulletins. The seven days bulletin contains weekly weather bulletin, climate smart agriculture recommendations and pest and diseases risk advisory

This project flyer describes the objectives, expected impact and benefits of the work to imporve agrometeorological information systems and data. The project will enhance the existing agro-meteorological networks and develop the infrastructure, procedures and capacity to provide high quality data and information services. The project will design policy options and guide land management planning for sustainably, enhance food security and support risk response in a context of current and future climate change.

The poster describes the project’s concept include: users, objectives, methods and results.  This poster explains how the FAO GEF project communicates information generated from the different stakeholders at national, provincial, and local levels

The leaflet present the activities of the first component of the project “Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information Systems (SAMIS) to improve adaptation to climate change and food security in Lao PDR”. The component, implemented in strict collaboration with the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH), Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, is titled “Strengthening agro-climatic monitoring, analysis, communication and use of data and information for decision making in agriculture and food security”. The activities includes the installment of agro-meteorological stations, the setup of a Laboratory for agro-meteorological analysis and instrument calibration, the implementation of the Laos Climate Services in Agriculture (LaCSA) system for modelling and distribution of climate services to farmers, and the facilitation of a process to ensure national Standard Operation Procedure are followed.

The leaflet present the activities of the second component of the project “Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information Systems (SAMIS) to improve adaptation to climate change and food security in Lao PDR”. The component, implemented in strict collaboration with the Department of Agriculture Land Management (DALaM), Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), is titled “strengthening institutional and technical capacity for monitoring and analysis of agricultural production systems and development of Land Resources Information Management System (LRIMS) and agro-ecological zoning (AEZ)”. This leaflet explain how the FAO GEF project will address monitoring, observation, analysis, data storage, and development of value-added information products, promote sharing, and better inform agricultural decision-making. Also, it will produce an information systems and develop the Agro-Ecological Zone (AEZ) assessment will benefit multiple sectors and decision makers and will be developed in close collaboration with other development partners working on similar areas.