Innovative agriculture monitoring for improved food security

Extreme climatic events continue to impact agriculture productivity globally. The increasing frequency and severity of these events and their impacts is felt in many regions of the world, most significantly in smallholder crop and livestock production systems in low-income countries, which are often less resilient to climate extremes. Earth Observation provides a critical source of timely, actionable information for forecasting, tracking, measuring, and responding to short- and long-term climate-related impacts on food systems.

With a focus on capacity (co) development/strengthening, this session will be presenting agricultural monitoring innovations and success/impact cases, by GEOGLAM partners, that are geared towards enhancing agriculture production potential and responding to food security concerns in at-risk countries and regions. More specifically, the session will present some case studies on agricultural monitoring capacity building in African countries and discuss the gap between the needs and the current situation, and how observation technologies can be used to better improve agricultural monitoring, as well as discuss the major building blocks for EO-based agricultural monitoring.

The capacity co-development approach by the GEOGLAM community is guided by a set of principles that seek to leverage and enhance existing capacities of the participating institutions in EO-based agricultural monitoring,

and to co-create fit-for-purpose information products and services for increased societal impact and benefits. The co-development approach is based on, and driven by user-specific needs, interests and capacities. The approach draws on the GEOGLAM community’s experiences and successes. It provides a future-looking vision for growth, necessary to equip the community to respond to the highly dynamic agricultural landscape.