DRSRS

E-AGRI: ACTIVITIES IN Kenya

24th March,2011

Charles Situma

Nairobi , Kenya

Charles.situma@yahoo.com

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KENYA

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1970’s 1980’s 2000’s

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Agricultural areas – Kenya Provinces

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Agriculture

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• Expanding Earth Observation Applications in Agriculture and Promoting Capacity Building in Developing Countries

• Monitoring of agricultural production leading to accurate and timely reporting of national agricultural statistics and accurate forecasting of shortfalls in crop production and food supply

• Effective early warning of famine, enabling timely mobilization of an international response in food aid

Observation

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Required

• Capacity building– state-of-the art models for Agricultural and forest

monitoring– gain experience in applicability of these models to

local conditions– adapt or select the appropriate models for integration

in local operational workflows

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Activities

• Agricultural crop and biomass predictive models• Short term on-hand workshop (expose DRSRS

participants to state-of-the art models and newly available satellite data

sets)• 1-2 month training• Exposure on existing cases (Morocco, China etc)• Tools (infrastructure): AMESD

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Collaborative effort: DRSRS, Alterra and VITO to set-up:

•Local crop data infrastructure and database.

• Train on generation of crop calendars, plant density, area, yields, LAI, ETP, etc.

•Train on calibration of crop parameters at local level

•Calibrate crop model local varieties especially for phenology and yield level

Collaborative effort: DRSRS, Alterra and VITO to set-up:

•Local crop data infrastructure and database.

• Train on generation of crop calendars, plant density, area, yields, LAI, ETP, etc.

•Train on calibration of crop parameters at local level

•Calibrate crop model local varieties especially for phenology and yield level

DRSRS

Collaborative effort: DRSRS, Alterra and VITO to set-up:

•Local crop data infrastructure and database.

• Train on generation of crop calendars, plant density, area, yields, LAI, ETP, etc.

•Train on calibration of crop parameters at local level

•Calibrate crop model local varieties especially for phenology and yield level

Collaborative effort: DRSRS, Alterra and VITO to set-up:

•Local crop data infrastructure and database.

• Train on generation of crop calendars, plant density, area, yields, LAI, ETP, etc.

•Train on calibration of crop parameters at local level

•Calibrate crop model local varieties especially for phenology and yield level

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Area estimation: CGMS China( ); Morocco ( )

Yield estimation: BioMA China( ); Morocco ( )

Workshops: Kenya ( ); Morocco ( )

Training:

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Workplan

 

2011         

2012           

2013           

Theme Activity Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep OctNov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May JunJul Aug Sep Oct

Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Capacity Buidling                                                                      

1Workshops                                                                    

2Training (model)                                                                    

3Training (parame)                                                                    

4Calibration                                                                    

5                                                                     

6                                                                     

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Thank you!