The goal of this workshop was the training of existing methodologies and tools for
predicting the onset of the rainy season for agricultural management.
The training included the following topics:
- The programming environment Matlab
- The physically-based crop model CropSyst
- A statistical method to estimate the onset of the rainy season in West Africa
- Statistical models for predicting the onset of the rainy season
- The procedure how to estimate the impact of climate change on crop
productivity in West Africa
For the training communicators important workshop outcomes were: - Discussion with local stakeholder about priority research needs within the
region
The overall goal of the training workshop was to introduce participants to existing
Themepul
methods for estimating the onset of the rainy season under agricultural meaningful
aspects in Uganda
