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The Who, Why, How & What

By:Laban MacOpiyo, Director

&Enrica Porcari, Programme Leader

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AGCommons

(Agricultural Geospatial Commons)


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Why.

Improve incomes and

lives of small farmers

in Sub-Saharan Africa

through location-

specific information.

MISSION


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How we got to AGCommons

Deciding Planting Growing Harvesting/Transport

Selling

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Information Needs

Price

Availability

Suitability

Credit

Data Sources

Market intelligence

Soils , water andclimate data

Credit offers

Providers

Agric Ministry

Other Gov Farmers Assoc.

Ag Research

Local NGOs

Intl Dev Orgs

Financialinstitutions

Extension Workers

Information Needs

Sowing date

Preparation advice

Soil fertility advice Pest and disease

management advice

Data Sources

Rainfall forecasts

Cultivation bestpractices

Soil informationservice

Providers

Agric Ministry

Farmers

Association

Ag Research

Extension Workers

Information Needs

Pest and diseasemitigation advice

Crop managementadvice

Irrigation advice

Data Sources

Pest and diseasemonitoring andforecasts

Rainfall forecasts

Providers

Farmers

associations

Other Gov

Ag Research

Local NGOs

Extension Workers

Information Needs

Price

Storage cost and

availability Transport cost and

availability

Data Sources

Storage, market andtrade hub locations

Market prices andstorage costs

Providers

Financialinstitutions

Farmers Assoc.

Ag Research

Local NGOs

Extension workers

Information Needs

Price

Market/trader

location Travel cost and

availability

Data Sources

Market prices bylocation andproduct

Travel cost surface

Providers

Extension workers

Other Gov

Local NGOs

FinancialInstitutions


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The outreach findings

Meetings and workshops involving more than

80 organizations in West and East Africa

Key challenges to effectively reach small

holder farmers

Accessibility to data and technology: overcoming

technical, political, cultural and cost constraints

Enabling the field role: dissemination and collection, two-

way data flow

Impact can be enhanced by adding location

context to inform key decisions

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Quick Wins

Crop Disease Surveillance

(Grameen TechnologyCenter)

Build and test mobile

tools for reporting pest &

disease outbreaks in

Uganda Conduct site visits and

take field samples

Analyze incoming data to

create maps

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Nodes of Growth:

Legume Seed Networks(CIAT)

Mapping of existing seed

dealers to make

decisions on new outlets

Create disseminationmaps for farmers

Feasibility for

dissemination via mobile

phone


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Quick Wins

G-roads: Roads Data

Development in Ethiopia(IMMAP, RCMRD, CIESIN)

Mapping of market

access (roads) and

agriculture points of

interest Initial focus on Ethiopia

Using customized

Cybertracker/GPS

All roads data collected

are open and freely

available

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Africats: Trial Sites

Catalogue(CGIAR)

Providing access to over

200 seed testing

networks in Africa

New varieties of seedsare available but

information on growing

conditions were not.

SIBWA: Seeing is

Believing, West Africa(ICRISAT, Mali)

Unlocking precision

agriculture in West

African smallholder

communities with veryhigh resolution imagery

Applying value of Quick

Bird imagery to small

scale farming

Talking to farmers

http://www.groads.org http://africats.org


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Location IntelligenceEnables interpretation of complex analytics

the power of where to optimize performance


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Multiple Perspectives Many Sources

Proprietary and Confidential AWhere, Inc. April 2008

Institutions and Individualshave much to offer and much

to share


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What is AGCommons?

AGCommons

Service Bureau

Multi-dimensionalMulti-directional

AGCommons LBI Platform

RemoteSensing

Production

Cropstype

Pest

Tracking

Project data: Agriculture example

Soilsfertility

Financial

Industrial

Agriculture

Education

Governance

Policy

Business

Sustainable Development

Census Alerts Reports Requests

Actionable Insight Local to Strategic

Economics


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Interrelationships that might otherwise be difficult todescribe or explain are often readily understood when visuallypresented.

visualization drives the next question

The map visualization delivers accurate, high-impact informationcontent, enabling decision makers to quickly gain anunderstanding of the key issues.

Patterns:

clusters, outliers, boundaries, trends, min/max/mean, gaps

AGCOMMONS Core Competencies

Location Based Intelligence!!!


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Location Based Intelligence

Multidirectional!


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Farmer Facing (Realtime!)

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Alerts: across partners Disseminated information system

Up and Download

GPS!

Dynamic aggregation

Communication

Connect the team

Forum, FAQs, Blog

Communication!


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Policy, Research Facing (Realtime!)


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Policy, Research Facing


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M&E - institutional memory, transparency and

accountability, move away from data silos!

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AGCommons: Ready to transform performance, M&E,

communication

Proven Location Intelligence platform

No organizational re-engineering required

Strategic data partnerships

Low IT impact

Scalable platform; rapid deployments


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Backend

AGCommons

Service Bureau

Data Collection

Harmonization,Management

& Dissemination

ProjectVisualization

DecisionSupport

Communication& Advocacy

M&E Support

DS PV, C & A DS/ME


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Data Services

Field data collection Full service for robust, quality-

controlled effort on theground

Hardware provisioning,software, training, field

campaign planning andmanagement.

Meso-scale collection

Aerial-orthophotography andphotogrammetry

Data research andprocurement Desktop research and

evaluation

Licensing and acquisition

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Hosting Library Services

Web Access, Thematic Framework,User Licensing

Data Translation and Processing Format conversion

Imagery feature extraction Data fusion

Field collected, modeled, remotelysensed, historical

Dissemination Metadata catalogue

Searchable, Discoverable,Crawlable

APIs Web Mapping Service (WMS),

Short Messaging Service (SMS)

DS PV, C & A DS/ME

P j Vi li i C i i &


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Project Visualization, Communications &

Advocacy Cartography and Mapping

Traditional Static Maps Maps targeted for a

specific audience orpurpose

Atlas Products

Map services for largescale products

Dynamic Maps

Map books

Thematically organizedcontent, updatedynamically

Web Maps

Interactive online maps

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Trial Sites Interactive Map

SIBWA

TailoredField

Maps

Graphics and maps for

marketing and outreach Context maps

Project web maps

Spatial Intelligence

Location based

services SMS data delivery

Social media

Map illustrating where the project isworking and who is involved in thework.

DS PV, C & A DS/ME


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Decision, M&E Support

Spatial Analysis

Characterization (querythe data)

Where questions

Targeting

Overlay analysis

Suitability

Network analysis Travel time and

accessibility

Modeling (test scenarios)

What if questions

Geostatistics

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Nodes of Growth: ProjectDesign via Spatial Analysis

Comparison of modeled riceproduction with seed dealers

Environmental change mapping

Time series mapping: Water,soils, landcover

Social change monitoring

Time series mapping: Poverty

& health indicators

Ex ante/Ex post evaluation Field sampling

KPI mobile data collection

In situ sensors

Spatial Analysis framework

Quantitative and Qualitative

VisualizingChanges inEnvironmentalIndicators

DS PV, C & A DS/ME


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How Principles

Build on other efforts

Outreach efforts: listen to the needs

Not on our own: partnerships USAID, CGAIR,SERVIR-Africa, RCMRD, ESRI.thats the

beginning

Gain experience and proof-of-concept

through 5 quick win projects


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The Real Story


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LocalFarmers

Produces harmonized

spatial data foragriculture decisions

Produces Droppr as

an interface to

HarvestChoice data

Uses ICT expertise to

modify Droppr for the

local environment,

provides access tolocalized spatial data.

Uses Droppr and

AGCommons data to

help call center

workers help local

farmers


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But what is IT?

The AGCommons technical environment is a Platform

AGCommons is Notjust one Application

Open Source GISGoogle Earth

Server GIS Offline Mapping

UN CGIARSOCIAL

MEDIANATIONAL LOCAL PROJECTS

GeoSMSDirect APIs

Data Sources

Modeling Environment

AGCommons

www.agcommonsplatform.com


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What is AGCommons?

AGCommons

Service Bureau

Multi-dimensionalMulti-directional

AGCommons LBI Platform

RemoteSensing

Production

Cropstype

Pest

Tracking

Project data: Agriculture example

Soilsfertility

Financial

Industrial

Agriculture

Education

Governance

Policy

Business

Sustainable Development

Census Alerts Reports Requests

Actionable Insight Local to Strategic

Economics


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Africa Agriculture GISWeek And a GIS ShareFair:

exhibitors

training sessions

thematic workshops

presentation sessions

Meet the Quick-Wins!

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