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SMART ICT for weather and water information advice to improve resilience in Africa
Giriraj Amarnath1, Bharat Sharma1, Niranga Alahacoon1, Timothy Williams1, Rajesh Pandey1, Gijs Simons2, Vladimir Smakhtin3
1International Water Management Institute (IWMI); 2eLeaf; 3UNU-INWEH
6th Africa Water Week, Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaJuly 18, 2016
CLIMATE CHANGE AND IMPACTS: KEY MESSAGES FOR AFRICA
Africa’s climate is already changing and the impacts are already being felt
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Further climatechange is inevitable in the coming decades
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Climate change poses challenges to growth and development in Africa
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Adaptation will bring immediate benefits and reduce the impacts CC
Adaptation isfundamentally aboutrisk management
Adaptation experiencein Africa is growing
Some low-carbon dev.options may be less costly In the long run and could offer new economic opportunities
Africa stands to benefit from integrated climateadaptation, mitigation and development approaches
International cooperation is vital to avert dangerous climate change and African governments can promote ambitious global action
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Source: IPCC AR5
CHALLENGE
• Bring smart and affordable ICT to everyday farm management for smallholders – to help boost sustainable agricultural production in Africa.
Mobile Phones in Africa
Smart Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for Weather, Water Information, EWS and Advice to Smallholders in Africa
PARTNERS
• Satellite images are increasingly being used to assist commercial farmers and agribusinesses
• Innovative approaches and ICT based technologies• Advice to end users for:
• informed decision making• enhanced negotiation capacity with water and farm related service
providers
WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES TO USE ICT TO INCREASE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY?
• IWMI has developed, test and pilot cell-phone and web-based information systems to provide near real time climate, vegetation, and water information relevant to the agricultural value chains
• To assist farmers, irrigation boards, agriculture extensions and water user associations by providing the information needed to make better management decisions
THE CONCEPT
• Develop online data base for all registered arm fields in Projects sites, around 60 fields in each site
• Use high-resolution RS data to monitor the condition of crops in a farmer’s field
• Convert this info into simple regular agro-advisory delivered to farmers through SMS
• This should help optimise farm profits by providing water and other inputs at the right place, time and quantity
Data processing (NL)
Basis EO data processing
Sophisticated data
processing
Meteorological data
processing
Internet
Dissemination
Website with map server
&Irrigation
forecast tool
Calibration and validation
Crop water consumption
Irrigation
forecasts
In situ data collection
Block delineation by
farmers
Meteo data
Earth observation data
DMCLandsat
NPP-VIIRS MSG
SMSGateway SMS to
farmers cell phone
SMART ICT: OPERATIONAL FLOWCHART
FLOOD RECESSION SUITABILITY ASSESSMENT (NIGERIA)
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Input Data from Spatial and Statistics
about main Multi Criteria analysis
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Water Data processing and Manipulating
Final Flood Recession
Suitability Map 6Reclassify of land use
criteria and other variables
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Simple Multi Criteria Analysis
– Weighted overlay using
GIS spatial analysis
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Spatial overlay map
Spatial Data Integration, Rainfall, SM
Jun_2012 Jul_2012 Aug_2012
Sep_2012Oct_2012
SUITABILITY MAPPING – FLOOD RECESSION AGRICULTURE
MEDIUM
DATA PRODUCTION
Raw DMC satellite data for 21-11-2012 (L), and derived daily evapotranspiration (M) and biomass production (R).
• ET, Biomass Production and related parameters are calculated spatially discrete for all three project areas, based on high-resolution images
• Instantaneous data (valid for the moment of satellite image capturing) are converted to weekly products for the pre-defined seasons
• This procedure is repeated every week: keeping track of the varying crop water conditions throughout the season
OUTPUTS – FLOODING MONITORING
• Only for Sudan; Two flood seasons to date – 2012 and 2013
• Disaster management angle – will Kassala town be affected?
• Water use efficiency angle – do farmers use diverted water for spate irrigation?
Gash Delta, Sudan
Download apphttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mb9inc.iwmi&hl=en
WetIn App
OUTPUTS - WEB PORTAL, AND SMS SERVICE
• FieldLook portal www.fieldlook.com - in English, Arabic and Oromiffaa
• Fieldlook spatial data are “translated” into simple SMSs - both qualitative and quantitative, and both on-demand and weekly “push”
• SMS services match desired information, farmer skills, and language, and consistently revised according to user feedback
Biomass production for 21-27 March, 2013 at the field of the maize farmer Ibrahem Abdel-Halim Hasanen, Egypt
The crop has no water stress when the soil moisture is above the critical
level and below the field capacity
OUTPUTS - IRRIGATION ADVICE
When the soil moisture drops
below the critical line, irrigation is
advised
OUTPUTS - CAPACITY BUILDING AND OUTREACH, SUDAN
Training on ICT Tools and applications Field Visit with Minister of Agriculture
Media briefing
Newspaper highlights
Mobile phones distribution by the Minister
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/24/mobile-phones-africa-microfinance-farming
Thank You !
More information visit : www.iwmi.cgiar.org Email: [email protected]