1. AGCommons
The CSI/CG
AGCommons Future
where and when do we meet?
2. Primary focus
Provide location-specific,
timely advisory services to
– Farmer
– Farmer community
– Farm radio station
– Cooperatives
– Grassroots orgs and NGOs
– Agro-market sector
– Government
– Research centres
– Training institutes
3. What are such information service
characteristics?
Must be relevant Must be actionable
– filter out noise – informs a decision
– know the receiver – leads to work activity
• – tradition may be in the way
history
• status quo
Must be timely
• plans
– pro-active advice
• location of operation
– partly real-time data based
• needs and wishes
Must be reliable Must be parsable
– build up trust – illiteracy, irrationality
– know past advices – language barriers
– advice good-practice – cultural barriers
10. GEONETCAST Capabilities : visualization
Every 15 minutes another image is animated -> 96 / day
Features:
nearly fully automated
settings used can be
easily changed, like:
•projection
•area of interest
•change background
animation prepared by
standard Windows XP
tools
done within 20 minutes
Virtually every derived parameter in a time
series can be animated, also with annotation
11. Import from Eumetsat Archive MPE time series
24 hr aggregated precipitation
Rainfall (mm)
- 100
- 0
Time period (UTC):
2007-06-18-07:00 hr
to
2007-06-19-06:45 hr
96 images
12. Other satellite products, example VGT – 10 day
Dry Matter Productivity
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
kgDM/ha/day
VGT4Africa.org
Vegetation Production Indicator
Normalized Difference Water Index
Reference to Normal
Vegetation development
Below
Above
13. CGIAR researcher role
Step out of your research shell for this session only
Reflect on big picture in the agro sector and role of
CG
Reflect on what your research efforts produce
– in data sources
– in understanding and knowledge
that is exploitable to farmers and farmer orgs.
Towards location-specific knowledge exploitation for
advisory services
What can be exploited?
14. Provocations
Accessibility
Map
– not secured through a web portal
– pre-21st century technique to
The farm-specific data stack
convey spatial, static information
– farmer profiling
– not your farmer info-product
Agro-economic development
Seasonality
– crop rotation
– need to understand the seasons
– farm development, 5-year plans
of all processes (also roads,
inputs, markets) and their – district produce diversification
dependencies
Cultural diversity is location-
Real-time data specific
– shorten the info-cycles – no one-size-fits-all solutions
– crucial for up-to-date advisories Making apps location-unspecific
and short-term predictions that (=generic)
can help build trust
Farmer sensor network
– she knows the farm
– surveillances => local early
warning
– together they know the district
– ground-truthing army
15. Themes for discussion now …
The communication channels
Collaboration schemes for AGC
Business models and sustainable
approaches
The potential of real-time data and the wall-
to-wall ambition
The farmer peer-to-peer e-Bay and long-term
farmer information communities
Ex ante impact assessment on farmer
communities