Scalingclimate information services and climate smart agriculture through bundled business models

IF 4 3区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Desire M. Kagabo , Livingstone Byandaga , Patrick Gatsinzi , Patrick Mvuyibwami , Yvonne U. Munyangeri , Nasson Ntwari , Mathieu Ouedraogo
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There is a general agreement among scholars that bundling Climate Information Services (CIS), Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), and other agricultural products and services can positively impact agriculture. However, many questions still need to be answered regarding how the bundling can be achieved through scalable and farmer-centric CIS-CSA bundled business models. This study narrowed the knowledge gap by revealing 1) how CIS, CSA, and other agricultural products and services may be bundled to support sustainable agriculture, 2) what types of CIS-CSA bundled business models are successfully reaching and benefiting farmers and entrepreneurs, and 3) proposing an evaluation framework for assessing CIS-CSA bundled business models ready for scaling. Drawing on the synthesis analysis of available relevant publications, we devised a 1–5 scale evaluation framework based on nine scaling readiness indicators—technology, impact, bundling, infrastructure, relevance, evidence, barriers, sustainability, and value addition—to assign scalability scores to 29 business cases with bundled CIS-CSA products and services across Africa and Asia. Eleven CIS-CSA bundled business models with publicly available quantitative scaling readiness data (financial capacity, the number of customers, customer categories, and the number of beneficiaries) were used to quantitatively model how different CIS-CSA products and services bundling strategies, the revenue stream structure of a CIS-CSA business, and the structure of a CIS-CSA business’s stakeholder network (the diversity of its stakeholders) affect its scaling readiness. Based on the scaling readiness evaluation framework, of the 29 identified CIS-CSA bundled business cases, 12 were ready for scaling. The quantitative analysis revealed that the type of a CIS-CSA model significantly determines its scalability— for example, a government-to-donor-to-business-to-consumer (G2D2B2C) CIS-CSA bundled business model would have 10 million USD more invested capital than a government-to-business-to-consumer (G2B2C) bundled business model type. Additionally, the G2D2B2C bundled business model type would serve 5 million farmers and three customer categories and gain ten partners more than the G2B2C. The finding also suggests that multi-stakeholder CIS-CSA business models, which provide a more diverse package of CIS-CSA products and services and have many revenue sources, have the potential to benefit all categories of farmers and entrepreneurs. This study reveals a reason for optimism about the future of agriculture; it suggests that scalable bundled CIS-CSA products and services can contribute significantly to attaining climate resilience and food security.
通过捆绑式商业模式扩大气候信息服务和气候智能型农业的规模
学者们普遍认为,将气候信息服务(CIS)、气候智能型农业(CSA)以及其他农业产品和服务捆绑在一起可以对农业产生积极影响。然而,如何通过可扩展的、以农民为中心的 CIS-CSA 捆绑商业模式实现捆绑,仍有许多问题需要解答。本研究通过揭示:1)如何将 CIS、CSA 及其他农业产品和服务捆绑在一起,以支持可持续农业;2)哪些类型的 CIS-CSA 捆绑商业模式正在成功地惠及农民和企业家;3)提出一个评估框架,用于评估已准备好推广的 CIS-CSA 捆绑商业模式,从而缩小知识差距。在对现有相关出版物进行综合分析的基础上,我们设计了一个 1-5 级的评估框架,该框架基于九项推广准备指标--技术、影响、捆绑、基础设施、相关性、证据、障碍、可持续性和附加值--为非洲和亚洲 29 个捆绑 CIS-CSA 产品和服务的商业案例分配可推广性分数。11 个 CIS-CSA 捆绑业务模型具有可公开获得的扩展准备程度量化数据(财务能力、客户数量、客户类别和受益人数量),用于对不同的 CIS-CSA 产品和服务捆绑策略、CIS-CSA 业务的收入流结构以及 CIS-CSA 业务的利益相关者网络结构(利益相关者的多样性)如何影响其扩展准备程度进行量化建模。根据扩展准备评估框架,在 29 个已确定的 CIS-CSA 捆绑业务案例中,有 12 个已做好扩展准备。定量分析显示,CIS-CSA 模式的类型在很大程度上决定了其扩展能力--例如,政府对捐助者、企业对消费者(G2D2B2C)的 CIS-CSA 捆绑业务模式比政府对企业、企业对消费者(G2B2C)的捆绑业务模式多投入 1000 万美元。此外,G2D2B2C 捆绑式商业模式将为 500 万农民和三类客户提供服务,比 G2B2C 多获得 10 个合作伙伴。研究结果还表明,多利益相关方 CIS-CSA 商业模式可提供更多样化的一揽子 CIS-CSA 产品和服务,并有多种收入来源,有可能使各类农民和企业家受益。这项研究揭示了对农业未来持乐观态度的理由;它表明,可扩展的捆绑式 CIS-CSA 产品和服务可极大地促进实现气候适应能力和粮食安全。
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Climate Services
Climate Services Multiple-
CiteScore
5.30
自引率
15.60%
发文量
62
期刊介绍: The journal Climate Services publishes research with a focus on science-based and user-specific climate information underpinning climate services, ultimately to assist society to adapt to climate change. Climate Services brings science and practice closer together. The journal addresses both researchers in the field of climate service research, and stakeholders and practitioners interested in or already applying climate services. It serves as a means of communication, dialogue and exchange between researchers and stakeholders. Climate services pioneers novel research areas that directly refer to how climate information can be applied in methodologies and tools for adaptation to climate change. It publishes best practice examples, case studies as well as theories, methods and data analysis with a clear connection to climate services. The focus of the published work is often multi-disciplinary, case-specific, tailored to specific sectors and strongly application-oriented. To offer a suitable outlet for such studies, Climate Services journal introduced a new section in the research article type. The research article contains a classical scientific part as well as a section with easily understandable practical implications for policy makers and practitioners. The journal''s focus is on the use and usability of climate information for adaptation purposes underpinning climate services.
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