 innovative application of agrometeorology data. Sound water management in agriculture is built upon long-term meteorological monitoring networks that provide robust, accurate, timely and consistent data that can be used to develop and access tools needed to properly manage water. Climate data analysis and forecasts especially assist water resource managers and farmers in mitigating the effects of water scarcity. We plan our cropping systems based on climate information and we operate them on the basis of weather information. Thus, local climate data is needed to mitigate risks for vulnerable communities. Improving access to local climate information is essential for advancing food security. In vulnerable countries, the SPARS weather observation networks are in part attributed to the high cost of acquiring an automatic weather station. The inability of developing countries to manufacture their own automatic weather stations leads to high reoccurring costs accruing from importation and maintenance. However, the situation is changing. Robust and relatively affordable automatic agrometeorological weather stations are now available in the market, facilitating climatic data acquisition in many areas. In the recent years, we have seen an increase of the evolution of sensors specifically for environmental monitoring. As an example, these are temperature and humidity sensors that we can use to monitor the environment inside control environment crops like glass houses. And this is a commercial sensor that is low cost. This is one of our developments where we have used 3D printed structures with commercial electronics like this one. And this is our all-digital sensor which is an accuracy similar to any other scientific instrumentation. Unfortunately, the problem with some of these sensors is that they are not ready for the environmental conditions that we normally find in agriculture. So they are exposed to dust, humidity, rain, irrigation, etc. So it is necessary to put these sensors into a more robust enclosure. This is what you normally find in commercial scientific grade instruments. So basically you have the same instrument inside this tube protected with some membrane to ensure that it's not going to be contaminated by the dust and the rain and the irrigation. It is possible however to find a compromise between the low cost of handmade sensors like this one and scientific grade sensors like this one. And this is an example where this is a commercial sensor for environmental monitoring inside glass houses where we can monitor temperature and humidity among other variables. And this just runs on a AAA battery and you can connect with Bluetooth. It has its internal data logger. So all the information is stored here for weeks. Then the farmer can come and download the data to their own mobile phone and just retrieve the data for irrigation scheduling purposes. There's plenty of applications that can be developed once we have this environmental information from irrigation management to the tech conditions where pests and diseases can develop much faster or just to monitor the potential growth based on environmental conditions. We can add all the sensors like soil moisture, radiation, etc. just to complement and help in the modelling or helping the predictions on yield forecast. As we've seen in recent years there has been a true revolution in the world of climate sensors. Despite this there is still a problem with the lack of daily climatic data from weather stations in developing countries. In situations where there is no weather station nearby there are several free databases available that provide long-term mean daily values of meteorological data over regions where ground measurements are sparse or non-existent. They are satellite and model-based products that are accessible via user-friendly web-based mapping portals.