Climate Services amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: Seasonal and sub-seasonal climate advisory and communication to agricultural stakeholders in Ethiopia

This brief summarizes a work that has been conducted in 2020 to provide seasonal and intra-seasonal climate forecasts and advisories to smallholder farmers amid the Covid-19 pandemic in Ethiopia. The work involved (i) preparation of seasonal outlook for the main rainy season, (ii) translation of the forecasts into advisories, and (iii) communication of advisories to smallholders to serve for tactical decision making. Similar steps were followed to generate 10 to 15 days forecasts and advisories and communicating them to smallholders together with COVID-19 status updates and awareness messages.