GLOBAL GATEWAY TO AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGY
BULLETIN Year 2. No.1, October 2018 Chief Editor Dr. Federica Rossi GlobalFAMS President
Printed in Bucharest by the National Meteorological Administration, Romania
Editorial Secretary and Technical Editor: Valentina Dumitru OUTLINE
Dr. Federica Rossi GlobalFAMS President ...... 3
Prof. Roger Stone The new President of the Commision of Agricultural Meteorology ...... 8
Dr. Orivaldo Brunini Vice President GLOBALFAMS and new Vice President of the Commision of Agricultural Meteorology “Role of the Global Federation of Agrometeorology Societies” ...... 10
Prof. Giampiero Maracchi A Person we are deeply missing ...... 11
Luigi Mariani Lombardy Museum of Agricultural History,Universita degli Studi di Milano – Disaa Societa agraria di Lombardia A TOUCH OF COLTURE IN AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGY Chapter 1 – WEATHER AND CROPS IN EURO-MEDITERRANEAN FROM THE ANCIENT AGE UNTIL THE ROMAN EMPIRE ...... 16
SISDAGRO – DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM IN AGRICULTURE ...... 53
Abstract from the Raport on Drought (WMO-Expert Team 3.1) CAgM ...... 60
Foreword
Dr. Federica Rossi GlobalFAMS President
2018 is an important year for Agrometeorology: many events have been carried out, and others are on the way. In Incheon, Republic of Korea, the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) and the President of the Commission of Agricultural Meteorology WMO, Dr Byong-Lyol Lee kindly hosted the 17th Session of the Commission.
Dr. Byong Lee and Dr. Jaecheol Nam, KMA Administrator and PR of the Republic of Korea with WMO, remarked the strong interdisciplinary of agrometeorology and the need to harmonize partnerships with national and global level institutions dealing to food production forestry, livestock and fisheries for risk governance, agro-ecosystem resilience and sustainability. Climate services and capacity development emerged as priorities, as the pending issues of securing resources, supporting infrastructures and developing technological innovations for better use of numerical weather prediction output (S2S).
Prof. Petteri Taalas, Secretary-General of WMO, recognized as well that agricultural meteorology is a benchmark to apply the study of direct and indirect weather and climate impacts on human activities, and noted the long lasting presence of agricultural meteorology in WMO, dating 1913.
Dr Hoesung Lee, Chair of IPCC-Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change- , mentioned that the demand for agricultural land would compete against the demand for land required to meet the net zero greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions goal, and that the demand for forests and land areas to allocate to bioenergy crops would increase. Agricultural productivity would thus play a crucial role in the pathways to the transition to the net zero GHGs world. Therefore, the importance of developing science and technology to provide guidance for agricultural meteorology would be more important than ever. Ensuring food security while enhancing the capacity of agriculture for adaptation and mitigation are recognized and crucial issues to face.
The Commission elected Roger Stone (Australia) as President and Orivaldo Brunini (Brazil) as Vice-President. GlobalFAMS welcomes the new President and VicePresident, wishing them a great work, offering support and help to the work of the Commission, sharing commitment and dedication to the growth of agrometeorology in any country and in the whole world.
It is a pleasure to us to present them in the next pages. We have an interview with Roger, and some considerations on Role of the Global Federation of Agrometeorology Societies by Orivaldo, who is also our VP.
3 ...“Agrometeorology makes people smiling”...
4 … respecting gender …
5 and … clapping hands !!!
Just before the CAgM Session, a Technical Conference on Future Challenges and Opportunities in Agricultural Meteorology – Applications and Services was held.
Large attention was paid to the Countries' needs to change their focus from reactive to proactive policies and plans to support food security in a climate change and variability scenario, and on contribution of agricultural meteorological services to farmers and countries to the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), including:
1- No Poverty, 2- No Hunger, 5 – Gender Equality, 7 Clean Energy, 13 – Protect the Planet, 15 – Life on Land and 17 – Partnerships for the Goals.
These issues are of great concern to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and UN Convention to Combat Desertification and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.
6 The specific role of National Agricultural Meteorological Societies to assist the development of agriculture meteorology within their countries clearly emerged in the Conference, as the role of our Global Federation of Agricultural Meteorological Societies as the entity able to increase international networking, share knowledge and provide input to CAgM. We are missing many persons in our circle of colleagues and friends. GlobalFAMS wants to remember, with deep sorrow and condolences, three of them that we have lost recently: Antonio Mestre, Barnabas Chipindu and Giampiero Maracchi.
Antonio Mestre, Spain
To Giampiero some of his former fellows have dedicated a posthumous, imaginary, interview that we publish here in the Gateway.
The close connection of agriculture, the most ancient Barnabas Chipindu, Zimbabwe human activity, with weather and climate are at our current days really discussed and recognized, but the same connection has always been investigated and outlined in the past. We are glad to host here a first contribution (more will follow in the next release) from Luigi Mariani, an outstanding Italian scientist who is a master in coupling historic memory with current research and application. Reading Luigi precious review will really increase our agrometeorological culture and literacy, we encourage all of you do this!!!!. But we can not forget the present, and we publish here a contribution from the Brazilian National Institute of Meteorology (INMET), in partnership with the Meteorological System of Parana (SIMEPAR, in Portuguese acronym) and the Agronomic Institute of Parana (IAPAR) , prepared to support users in their agricultural planning and management decisions. The Gateway thanks GlobalFAMS VP Orivaldo Brunini per having provided it. During any CAgM intersessional period, groups of agrometeorologists, nominated based on regional representation, gender balance and specialized expertise, work in team to outline the main problems, gaps and emerging issues, and produce recommendation, in specialized focus areas. This second release of the Gateway takes the opportunity to disseminate some outputs of an Expert Team operating in the last inter-sessional period (2014-2018) about an increasingly shared and common topic, drought. It is interesting to know how the definition of drought is discussed, its phases, what material exist on likely drought changes under future climate variability and change and to read a literature review of the climate science to identify the main mechanisms behind drought onset and persistence in order to develop guidance material for drought preparedness. We deeply thank the ET 3.1 (Allan Howard, Lynette Biettio, Michael Hayes, Alexander Kleschenko, Karim Quevedo Caiña, Andreja Susnik) for their work.
7 Prof. Roger Stone
The new President of the Commision of Agricultural Meteorology
Our interview to Roger
1. You are the new President of CAgM, congratulations! Could you please tell us your vision to contribute to the development and dissemination of agricultural meteorology in the next years? What are the main issues you would like to address efforts and develop knowledge?
I feel like I'm coming into this position with enormous but exciting challenges. The world is facing so many serious and growing issues, especially in relation to global