[day3] agcommons quickwin: seeing is believing
DESCRIPTION
Presented by Pierre C.S. Traore (ICRISAT) at the CGIAR-CSI Annual Meeting 2009: Mapping Our Future. March 31 - April 4, 2009, ILRI Campus, Nairobi, KenyaTRANSCRIPT
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
seeing is believing:unlocking precision agriculture in West
African smallholder communities with very
high resolution imagery
gani ya kori ji
yenko ye foko bobe be wule bibile wob e
nif yaab la sida
AMEDD, Fuma Gaskiya, ICRISAT, IER, INERA, INRAN, KMG, SARI, UACT, UPN
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
The idea
• Precision ag. irrelevant to smallholders? FALSE
• West African farmers = PA pioneers
• Why would they want VHRI then?
– We’re not sure, but they want it for sure
– Field acreages, reveal less visible patterns of change
– Map hotspots, bright spots, other spots
– Field-level metrics for rainwater management
– The “conscious” (and ambitious) side: decision
support for productivity enhancement technology
(field level)
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
More ideas
• The “unconscious” (or safe) side: discussion support for agricultural landscape design (community level)
• Land tenure, community arbitration, decentralization
• The urban analogy – why should VHRI concentrate on urban areas? At such a low cost, shouldn’t rural communities equally benefit from it? YES, THEY SHOULD
• VHR mapping = precursor of land security & SLM (when you realize that you should own and invest)
• VHR mapping = precursor of intensification (when space is limited and resources need better organization)
• VHR mapping = precursor of demystification (when climate gets back into Pandora’s box)
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Objective(s)
• Demonstrate the value of VHRI to help scale up a few quick-win productivity enhancement technologies in 6 smallholder communities across Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali and Niger
– Focus on the last 8 km
– Candidate technologies: spatially optimized soil and water management practices
– Show a variety of value-added products
– Demonstrate real-world deployability and potential impact
– Upload GIS datasets to shared online AgCommons repository
– Publish metadata on GeoNetwork
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
4 phases, 7 tasks
• 1: Organize resources: human, methods, tools
• VHRIbox
• VHRIex2
• 2: Share information at sites
• ROLLout (x 6)
• 3: CRT support functions
• CRTtopo (x 5)
• CRTverif (x 2)
• 4: FEED and CAP
• FEEDback (x 6)
• FASTfwd (x 6)
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Task 1: Build site-specific VHR information
containers and proto-maps (VHRIbox)
• 1 information container and 1 set of proto-maps per site
• Containers: geodatabase shells with initial matching
ingredients. Will later host project generated information
• Laminated printouts will crystallize initial VHRIbox content
into proto-maps to engage VHR information exchange
with farmers
• Proto-maps: field boundaries overlaid on i/ VHR color
composites, ii/ VHR NDVI, iii/ toposequence, slope
class, iv/ hotspots (field-level NDVI anomaly), v/ field-
level CRT potential
• Deliverables: 6 containers, 6x5 proto-maps
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Task 2: Build a human interface for VHR
information extraction and exchange
(VHRIex2) • Assemble, train team of VHRI-conversant staff including
1 gender-aware quintet per site: junior local extension
specialist literate in local languages, junior field GIS
technician or student , farmer representative, senior local
NGO or extension personnel, a scientist/backstopper
• Equip team with standard interfacing tools and
procedures to interact with different stakeholders
• Deliverables: 6 quintets, 1-week crash retreat held
for training on VHRIex2, 6 experimental protocols
with toolkits, procedures, etc. uploaded
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Task 3: Roll out VHRI to farmer fields
(ROLLout)
• Sequential site exposure from wet to dry
• proto-maps presented to FOs through focus groups
following a stratified sampling protocol (tbd): i/ farmers
exposed to proto-maps and productivity enhancement
technologies and ii/ farmers exposed to productivity
enhancement technologies only (control group)
• Movies and on-site demos on productivity enhancement
technologies
• IER and AMEDD to lead
• Deliverables: 6 sites covered from 01MAY-11JUN (1
week/site)
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Task 4: Derive field-level topography metrics
to assess potential (CRTtopo)
• develop semi-automated VHRI analysis method to extract dominant furrow azimuth in cattle plowed fields
• Drape results on DEM to estimate average departure from the dominant field slope
• Interpreted in terms of local priority for infiltration or drainage (function of field position on the toposequence)
• only applies to sites with significant cattle plowing: all but Serkin Hawsa
• Deliverables: 1 report on VHRI processing methods to assess field-level CRT potential, 5 field-level suitability maps (1 per site)
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Task 5: Test VHRI as an objective
verification tool (CRTverif)
• test the potential of VHRI for CRT impact assessment using historical measures of biomass productivity (NDVI-based) as an alternative to detailed household and field surveys
• Compare 30 CRT-equipped farmer fields in Fansirakoro and Sukumba to control fields that lie in the same toposequence class
• Deliverables: 1 report on VHRI processing methods to assess CRT impact in 2 sites
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Task 6: Collect user feedback on site
(FEEDback)
• deploy team in 6 sites to update, for all collaborating farmers: field boundaries, field ownership, cropping histories (field level), information resource allocation and management of abiotic stresses (household level).
• For best tradeoff between crop differentiation and farmer time constraints, will take place towards peak biomass (September)
• will involve collection of farmer feedback on productivity enhancement technologies they may have tested (or not), and on VHRI derived maps they may have used for purposes of technology targeting or for other purposes (or not).
• largest concurrent deployment of human resources.
• Deliverables: 6 sites covered concurrently (on-site presence: 1 month/site)
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Task 7: Forward maps of farmer screened
technology to sites (FASTfwd)
• Collate user feedback and encode information into site geodatabases, update proto-maps and ship back to FOs, LGAs, community leaders
• Laminate individual A4 farm maps for collaborating farmers, synthesizing key learnings, recommendations for technology deployment
• Elements of fine tuned information that will be forwarded: field acreage, intra-field hotspots of abiotic stress for targeting of (organic) fertilizer inputs, field fitness for CRT implementation (or other promising technology indentified during the course of the project).
• Deliverables: 6x5 laminated maps finalized and forwarded to local communities. 6xn individual farmer maps finalized and forwarded to local recipients, All geospatial material generated during project lifetime uploaded for online serving.
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
2 productivity enhancement technologies in
mind… or more?
• Water management: CRT (+20%!)
• ISFM: fertilizer micro-doses? Composting/manure?
(+20%!)
• Flexibility built-in for game time decisions depending on
local experts, farmers
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
• Top: 2003 and cover
(crop type) on pan
imagery
• Bottom: 2003 crop-
specific estimates of
mean biomass production,
in g.m-2 on ASTER digital
elevation model
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Multispectral false color composite (NIR reflectance
appears in red) displaying cotton stand establishment in
CRT (left) and non-CRT fields (right) on Diakaria Konaté's
farm, 40 days after sowing
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Same, with regressed biomass estimates overlayed.
Yellowish to greenish colors display field areas with at least
10 g.m-2 of crop dry matter equivalent
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Who and how many will be affected
• ~3,000 farmers & dependents (est. 50 farms or households per site, 10 people per farm/household)
• ~ 6 to 12 farmer organizations (1/site, plus women’s groups)
• ~3 to 6 local NGOs
• ~30 research personnel (scientists and extension staff included)
• ~ 3 to 6 institutions from donor community and policy making arena
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Ideas for phase 2 (if 1 works)
• Scale up: do the same in more communities– All 703 communes of Mali? ~2M USD
– Larger selection in more countries? ~x M USD
• Test new applications:– Test SOWO carbon accounting protocol for carbon trade projects
– Scale down aflatoxin risk early warning products in Ghana, Mali (in partnership with CCLF-aflatoxin project)
• Data-wise:– Get that GeoEye
– Get that SRTM-30m
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Ideas for phase 2 – carbon accounting
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Ideas for phase 2 – carbon accounting
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09
Ideas for phase 2 – aflatoxin risk
SIBWA – CSI – Nairobi, 02APR09