; (ii) inform and advise about agricultural climate variability, change, vulnerability, risk, adaptation, and mitigation; (iii) respond to climate impacts on ecosystems, economics, and diversity; (iv) collect and store agricultural climate data to share with other individuals and entities within the Network and Federal research partners; (v) assist agricultural producers in implementing new management approaches to adapt to, reduce the risk of, and provide societal solutions to mitigate climate change; (vi) transfer technology, research outcomes, and information; and (vii) improve climate change awareness, education, and planning assistance, as necessary; and (B) enter into cooperative agreements or contracts, on a multiyear basis, with community-based, direct-service organizations to initiate, expand, or sustain— (i) activities carried out under subparagraph (A) and paragraph (2); or (ii) programs described in subsection (b)(1). (2) Means described An eligible entity may carry out the activities described in paragraph (1)(A) through— (A) the development of phone technology, online applications, websites, handbooks, manuals, publications, warning systems, and other communication networks in all regionally appropriate languages; (B) training, including training programs and workshops, for disseminating information to— (i) crop insurance agents; (ii) loan and credit officers; (iii) agricultural suppliers; (iv) agricultural producers; (v) State cooperative agents; (vi) third-party providers (as defined in section 1242(a) of the Food Security Act of 1985 ( 16 U.S.C. 3842(a) )); (vii) Certified Crop Advisers and Certified Professional Soil Scientists certified by the American Society of Agronomy; (viii) Federal officers and employees, including officers and employees of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Farm Service Agency, the Agricultural Research Service, and the Forest Service; (ix) non-Federal technical assistance providers; (x) climate change experts who work with agricultural producers