The Working Group of Research, Development and Technological Innovation (TWG4) of PLACA held a thematic session on the National Agricultural Climate Risk Zoning Program ZARC: implementation, experiences and lessons learned in Brazil.

Objective

To learn about the trajectory of the National Agricultural Climate Risk Zoning Program in Brazil, covering topics such as:

• Importance of an agricultural zoning system for climate risk.
• Methodology for the elaboration of ZARC products
• Access to and dissemination of the information generated
• Application examples and success stories
• Evolution and future of the program:
• ZARC at Agronomic Management Levels (ZarcNM)
• ZARC and Agricultural Productivity (ZarcPro)
• Risk assessment and the future of agricultural insurance in Brazil

Exhibitor

PhD in Agrometeorology Jose Eduardo Monteiro, researcher at Embrapa and leader of the ZARC project. His research work has focused on topics such as agricultural zoning, climate risk management, crop modeling, agrometeorological data processing, agrometeorological instrumentation, among other related areas of knowledge.

The recording of the session is available at the following link https://youtu.be/-CUBhI8t-fk. The summary and the presentation can be found here.