{"id":1350,"date":"2016-02-24T11:39:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T10:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weatherimpact.com\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2019-09-03T14:21:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T14:21:06","slug":"mission-ethiopia-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/mission-ethiopia-common-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Ethiopia Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since January 2016 Weather Impact joined the Common Sense consortium. In this project the livelihood of farmers in Ethiopia is improved by providing information based on satellite and weather data. Farmers are targeted through their supporting network (farmers\u2019 cooperative unions and associations, micro finance institutions, extension services by development agents from the Ministry of Agriculture). Services are developed that should place the farmers in a better position to sell their products to the market and to get more accurate and farm specific advice. Tailored weather information provided by Weather Impact will improve farm management and protect crops from climate and weather risks.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the first week of March we will travel to Ethiopia to visit the local partners in the Common Sense project and discuss the specific user needs of smallholder farmers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-696\" src=\"http:\/\/weatherimpact.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bauer-559205_1920-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since January 2016 Weather Impact joined the Common Sense consortium. In this project the livelihood of farmers in Ethiopia is improved by providing information based on satellite and weather data. Farmers are targeted through their supporting network (farmers\u2019 cooperative unions and associations, micro finance institutions, extension services by development agents from the Ministry of Agriculture). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weatherimpact.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}