TY - RPRT N2 - The Participatory Integrated Climate Services for Agriculture (PICSA) approach, designed by the University of Reading (UoR), focuses on improving farmers' livelihood and resilience against the effect of climate change. It provides farmers with accurate, locally specific climate and weather information; coupled with diverse, locally pertinent options for crops, livestock and other livelihood activities; and the use of participatory planning tools to improve and enlighten their decision making based on their individual situations. PICSA is a step by step approach, primarily designed for field extensionists to help them integrate new tools in their activities with farmers and improve the efficiency and impact of those activities on farmer's enterprises. AV - public KW - Climate change KW - Food security KW - Agriculture KW - Farmers KW - Climate Smart Technologies and Practices KW - Climate services and safety nets A1 - Ouedraogo, M A1 - Traore, Z B A1 - Birhanu, B A1 - Zougmore, R B TI - Scaling up climate services for agriculture in Mali Initial findings from piloted implementation of PICSA approach in Africa RISING project intervention zone, southern Mali UR - https://hdl.handle.net/10568/105558 SP - 1 Y1 - 2019/08// ID - icrisat11410 M1 - other EP - 4 PB - CGSpace ER -