Scaling climate information services and climate smart agriculture through bundled business models

作者：Desire Mbarushimana Kagabo, Livingstone Byandaga, Patrick Gatsinzi, Patrick Mvuyibwami, Yvonne Uwase Munyangeri, Nasson Ntwari, Mathieu Ouédraogo · 发表于：Climate Services · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1016/j.cliser.2024.100526 · 被引用次数：9 · 研究领域：Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development、Green IT and Sustainability、Technology Adoption and User Behaviour

There is a general agreement among scholars that bundling Climate Information Services (CIS), Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA), and other agricultural products and services can positively impact agriculture. However, many questions still need to be answered regarding how the bundling can be achieved through scalable and farmer-centric CIS-CSA bundled business models. This study narrowed the knowledge gap by revealing 1) how CIS, CSA, and other agricultural products and services may be bundled to support sustainable agriculture , 2) what types of CIS-CSA bundled business models are successfully reaching and benefiting farmers and entrepreneurs, and 3) proposing an evaluation framework for assessing CIS-CSA bundled business models ready for scaling. Drawing on the synthesis analysis of available relevant publications, we devised a 1–5 scale evaluation framework based on nine scaling readiness indicators— technology , impact , bundling , infrastructure , relevance , evidence , barriers , sustainability , and value addition —to assign scalability scores to 29 business cases with bundled CIS-CSA products and services across Africa and Asia . Eleven CIS-CSA bundled business models with publicly available quantitative scaling readiness data (financial capacity, the number of customers, customer categories, and the number of beneficiaries) were used to quantitatively model how different CIS-CSA products and services bundling strategies, the revenue stream structure of a CIS-CSA busine...