Expert system MAPA as a decision support for agroclimatic risk management

Abstract

With the goal to contribute to change of knowledge expert and the increase of local capacity for decision making aimed at improving the adaptation of cropping systems to climate change and climate variability, a web platform was developed called SE-MAPA, it was developed in the framework of the project Models of Adaptation and Agroclimate Prevention (MAPA), which integrates a module with spatial information focused on the knowledge of the territory in the agroclimate context. The system was built and organized through a logic to allow the management of agroclimate risk at different spatial scales. The first scale at the departmental level presents the general knowledge of the climatic and biophysical environment, which includes information about the characterization of climate threats and territorial susceptibility to extreme events such as water deficits and excesses. After, it is scaled to the municipality, where agroclimate aptitude zones for a crop system are identified, therefore areas of low spatial and temporal exposure to extreme climatic events were identified called "productive niches of low agroclimate risk". Finally, a local scale focused on the structuring of an agroclimate warning system, which for the pilot cases included in the tool, provides the probable condition of humidity of the zone from a climate prediction, which is related to the possible effects on the crop and a set of technological options. The tool can be consulted at http://www.corpoica.org/.