sites and landscapes

Sites & Landscapes

Glenn Hyman

International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Planned road linking Brazil and Peru

Road to Lima

PERU

Brazil

Colombia Ecuador

Brazil

Using space as a proxy for time

Poverty Indices From 1993/1994 Population and

Agricultural Census of Peru

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Years Since Forest Clearing

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Household Index

Education Index

Well-being Index

Rural Household Index

Basic Needs Index

CCAFS Where we work

Regional selection: WA, EA, IGP • Represent areas that are becoming both drier and

wetter

• Areas that will generate results that can be applied and adapted in other regions worldwide

• Poverty and vulnerability

• Complementary set of social, cultural and institutional contexts

• Complementary climatic contexts

• Significant but contrasting climate-related problems and opportunities for interventions

• Security, governance, institutional capacity that favour likelihood of generating transferable results

Principles of site selection

• Must build on partnerships with a range of actors already working in these areas

• Should build on existing structures, institutions, projects and programs (not start from scratch)

East Africa

Kenya Nyando Kenya Machakos Uganda Albertine Uganda Kagera Tanzania Usambara Ethiopia Borana

West Africa

Indo-Gangetic

Plains

How many sites?

• So far, 31 sites

• They are doing baseline surveys at each site

Trial Sites: CCAFS, GCP

Links to national programs, long term trial sites: Central Peruvian Amazon station of Instituto Nacional de Innovacion Agraria (INIA)

Agricultural technology evaluation: Trial metadatabase and file repository

http://agtrials.org/

Glenn Hyman, Andy Farrow, Herlin Espinoza, Ernesto Giron, Andy Jarvis, Jagath Kularatne (CIAT) 2011 General Research Meeting Hyderabad, India 24 September 2011

Web interface

Relational database

Trial sites and trials

Document files on trial site

Upload soil information: • descriptions • soil maps • data

Weather during the trial

Photographs of the trial site

You specify who can access the data

Summary: Intellectual Property Rights

• Only registered and authenticated users can upload or download any data

• You establish the type of license to use the data, which can only be downloaded if user agrees to license

• You specify who can download

• You control your data

Users can enter the traits or variables measured in the trial here. Source: GCP’s www.cropontology.org

Integration with GCP Crop Ontology

Agtrials.org is growing: evaluation data

Final remarks

• Do we nearly fully rely on existing sites? Security issue….

• Number of sites (Columbia U. experience?)

• Link with other CRPs

• Combine drivers of land use change with position on forest transition curve

• GeoEye imagery

Thank you for your attention Q&A