Fifteenth session of the CAgM

Belo Horizonte, Brazil - 15 to 21 July 2010

The fifteenth session of the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM-XV) will be held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil from 15 to 21 July 2010. The 15th Session of CAgM will be preceded by an International Workshop on Addressing the Livelihood Crisis of Farmers: Weather and Climate Services on Agrometeorological Risk Management from 12-14 July 2010.

Abridged Final Report with resolutions and recommendations (WMO-No. 1062)

• Arabic
• Chinese
• English
• French
• Russian
• Spanish

Presentations made during CAgM-XV

• Doc. 1 - Flow Chart of Session by Avinash Tyagi (0.1 mb) 
   
• Doc. 3 - Report of the Secretary-General on the Agricultural Meteorology Programme by Robert Stefanski (0.8 mb)
   
• Doc. 3 – Overview of World Climate Conference – 3 by Avinash Tyagi (0.8 mb)
   
• Doc. 4(1) – Overview of OPAG 1 - Agrometeorological Services For Agricultural ProductionBy Prof. Sue Walker and Prof. Alexander Kleshchenko (0.2 mb)
   
• Doc. 4(1) - OPAG 2 - Support Systems for Agrometeorological Services by Federica Rossi (2.4 mb)
   
• Doc. 4(1) – OPAG 3 – Natural Disasters in Agriculture and Climate Change and Variabilityby Ray Motha (0.3 mb)
   
• Doc. 4(1) - In Depth Report of the President of the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM) by Jim Salinger (1.4 mb)
   
• Doc. 4(1) - Activities of the Vice-President by L.S. Rathore (0.5 mb)
   
• Doc. 6 - CAgM Strategic Planning by Jim Salinger (0.6 mb)
   
• Doc. 10 - Future work of the Commission including the establishment of Expert Teams by Jim Salinger (0.4 mb)
   
• Doc. 10 – OPAGs, ICTs, and Expert Team Membership by Jim Salinger (0.1 mb)

Presentations from the Open Forum

• FAO data, tools & methods for climate impact assessment at national level by Michele Bernardi (FAO) (3.5 mb)
   
• Agroclimate Service in Canada by Allan Howard, Agriculture Agri-Food Canada (1.5 mb)
   
• Strategic Visions of CAgM XV for GFCS by Byong Lee, Republic of Korea (1.7 mb)
   
• Use of Statistics at the National Meteorological Service of Argentina by Liliana N. Núñez (3.0 mb)
   
• New Challenges of Environment and Climate Change Detection with Satellite 
  Remote Sensing Measurements by John Qu, George Mason University (1.6 mb)
   
• INSAM: The International Society for Agricultural Meteorology by Kees Stigter, Founding President of INSAM (0.1 mb)
   
• Indian National (Weather) Satellites for Agrometeorological Applications by 
  Bimal K. Bhattacharya, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) (3.1 mb)