CGIAR-CSI's Documents

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    Aagw2010 June 10 Byron Anangwe Rcmrd the Role

    RCMRD; The Role! 1Byron Anangwe Product Development Officer - RCMRD banangwe@rcmrd.org Lodenyo IT & Comm. Specialist – SERVIR/RCMRD elodenyo@rcmrd.org 2Edward Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development AAGW Meeting @ ILRI 10062010 Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development AAGW Meeting @ ILRI 10062010 RCMRD plays significant role in: •Promotion, Awareness & Distribution of Satellite Imagery •Project Implementation & Capacity Building •Formulation of data po

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    Aagw2010 June 10 Paolo Paron Access Hapa

    ACCESS – HAPA Analysis of Climate Change in Environmental and Social Studies through Historical Aerial Photography Archives Draft proposal By Paolo Paron, PhD Where It’s not a white roof…it’s snow! What Whaaat…? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ONqn-Mxslg When Country Zambia Nigeria Kenya Tanzania Sabah / Sarawak Malaya Uganda < 1960 103,976 76,323 85,264 88,802 91,840 59,791 40,444 > 1960 53,678 72,307 51,867 25,880 21,936 0 7,128 Blank 14,749 2,308 0 784 158 0 495 Total 172,403

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    Aagw2010 June 10 Moses Ruhura Basaza Progis Benefits of Integrated Information Systems for Farmers and Advisors

    Progis ecology-solutions HOLISTIC RURAL AREA MANAGEMENT Progis web-solutions Progis technology Progis geo-INFOtainment Progis pipeline-solutions Progis smart-community Mr. Moses Ruhura Basaza PROGIS Software GmbH, Austria Benefits of Integrated Information Systems for Farmers and Advisors www.progis.com African Agriculture GIS Week (AAGW) 2010, Kenya PROGIS – SOFTWARE THAT SHOWS PROGIS Software GmbH Software that Shows ! Progis ecology-solutions GIS – WinGIS and AX-Development environmen

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  • 23 p.

    Aagw2010 June 10 Mohammed y Said Participatory Land Use Planning in Kitengela Plains Kenya

    Participatory Land Use Planning in Kitengela Plains, Kenya Mohammed Y Said1, Shem Kifugo1, David Nkedianye2, Ogeli Makui2, Leah Ng'ang'a1, Moses S Kuyo1, Mary Moipa1, Kisham Makui1, Jan de Leeuw1 and James Turere1 (1) International Livestock Research Institute (2) Africa Wildlife Foundation, (3) Kitengela Landowners Association Africa Agriculture GIS Week 2010, 8 – 12 June ILRI, Nairobi Outline of the Presentation • Brief overview on patterns of biodiversity at global, regional and landscape

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    Aagw2010 June 10 Mikel Maron Mapkibera

    Map Kibera Mikel Maron GroundTruth Initiative OpenStreetMap photo: http://gallery.me.com/dbullington#100816&view=null&bgcolor=black&sel=12 Kibera 1 million people(?), 2.5 km2 was a blank spot on the map Blank spots on the map have motivated me to travel to Palestine, India, and help coordinate in Haiti OpenStreetMap Global Collaborative Mapping “kinda like Wikipedia for Maps” Phase 1 October – December 2009 Existing Data satellite imagery Partners and Allies Broadcast and Communit

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  • 28 p.

    Aagw2010 June 10 Meshack Nyabenge Development of an Irrigation Master Plan for Rwanda

    Development of an Irrigation Master Plan for Rwanda Introduction • Although the agriculture sector in Rwanda employs 90% of the labour force, the food and nutrition needs of the population cannot presently be met, as evidenced by the high prevalence of malnutrition (MINECOFIN 2002). • Moreover, agriculture, despite its high potential, does not contribute substantial revenue to the economy. Rwandan agriculture is primarily undertaken at the subsistence level, providing little surplus for local

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  • 24 p.

    Aagw2010 June 10 Larisa Golovko Back to Basics Soil Ec as a Proxy to Map Other Soil Properties

    Larisa Golovko1 Anatoly Pozdnyakov2 Landviser, LLC RiceTec, Inc - Houston, TX USA 2 Moscow State University, College of Soil Science – Moscow, RUSSIA 1 1     “just dirt” “all soils are the same” “substrate for plants” “I just add water and fertilizer, use prime seeds – my yields will be high” Those opinions are very shallow! 2 3      Parent material (geology) Climate (temperature and precipitation) Topography Vegetation Time If we can map and understand soils, we can underst

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  • 38 p.

    Aagw2010 June 10 Kibet Stephen Soil Erosion Prediction Using Rusle

    AFRICA AGRICULTURE GIS WEEK 2010 NAVIGATING THE CHANGE: Taking a closer look at the role of spatial information and analysis in supporting improved agricultural research and development Thursday, June 17, 2010 Kibet Stephen: Moi University// E.R.M.I.S AFRICA NAKURU TOPIC:SOIL EROSION PREDICTION USING RUSLE(REVISED UNIVERSAL SOIL LOSS EQUATION) INTEGRATED WITH GIS PRESENTER: KIBET STEPHEN INSTITUTION: MOI UNIVERSITY Attaché: environmental research mapping & information systems (ERMIS) Africa C

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  • 29 p.

    Aagw2010 June 10 John Owuor Combating Poverty and Improving Livelihood Through Agroforestry

    COMBATING POVERTY AND IMPROVING LIVELIHOOD THROUGH AGROFORESTRY SCC - VI Agroforestry Eastern Africa John Owuor john.owuor@viafp.org About SCC-Vi Agroforestry Past 25 years working in the Lake Victoria basin Vi-Agroforestry has bee doing agroforestry in East Africa; Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Tanzania – but around Lake Victoria Objectives are to reached on household level ; • To increase food and nutritional security • To increase fuel-wood availability • To increase income Ambition: Improve

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    Aagw2010 June 10 John Corbett Closing the Final Kilometer

    "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in adapting the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man [& woman]." - George Bernard Shaw Closing the final kilometer: agricultural information to the grower John Corbett, Ph.D, aWhere, Inc. johncorbett@awhere.com Complexity of agricultural production in the tropics: multi-seasonal, multi-crop, relay Information – content- is at a premium – timely and localized Clearly „mAgricult

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