TOWARDS A GEO-ENABLED AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT IN GHANA: THE ROLE OF CERSGIS 

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1. TOWARDS A GEO-ENABLED AGRICULTURE DEVELOPMENT IN GHANA: THE ROLE OF CERSGIS ! Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services University of Ghana Legon-Accra
2. SUPPORT FOR AGRO-RELATED SPATIAL DATA COLLECTION ❖ GIS/GPS training for farmers and other stakeholders ! ! ❖ Farm boundary mapping for some agriculture projects (e.g. Cocoalife) ! ! ❖ Creating national agriculture database with specific farmland under cultivation !
3. Conceptual Overview National Agriculture Database Project data GPS Mapping of farm location ! WEB PORTALS/MOBILE APPS FOR DATA DISSEMINATION Farmer data e-Extension Platform Collaborate with most content producers and stakeholders Building national agriculture spatial database Online GIS for Ghana’s Agriculture www.gis4ghagric.net GhanaMappr IFPRI/CGIAR Collaboration Mobile App solutions Using both RS and GIS Open source and Proprietary Software
4. The portal: Accessed by value chain actors Actors include: Investors, agri-input dealers, aggregators, researchers, commercial farmers, financial institutions etc Quick and Easy Decision Making
5. Farm location and attribute information in the database Easy to verify the farm owner accessing credit
6. CLEARING HOUSE FOR AGRICULTURE SPATIAL DATASETS ❖ Development of Online GIS Portal for Ghana’s agriculture for retrieving datasets ! ! ❖ Harmonizing agriculture projects datasets for easy referencing and access even after projects lifespan (AGRA, TIPCEE, ADVANCE, etc) ! ! ❖ Developing thematic maps to support decision making by value chain actors in the sector(Agriculture Project Intervention Maps, etc) ! ! ❖ Visualization and access of agriculture related statistics (Production, Market Prices, etc)
8. SAMPLE OUTPUT: MiDA Investment Activities (Compact-1)
9. Land Suitability Cowpea Millet
10. Agric Statistics
11. AGRICULTURE RELATED GIS APPLICATIONS ! ❖ Spatial analysis as a decision support tool for farmers and other stakeholders ! ! ❖ Develop IVR/Mobile e-Xtension application to support farmers access extension support in their local language and also enhance project evaluation
12. Integrated feedback system for smallholder farmers
13. Overview of the e-Extension Platform
14. WAY FORWARD ❖ Extend coverage of datasets beyond project scope ! ❖ Expand datasets beyond current datasets(Add-on livestock data) ! ❖ Completely map and register almost all farms being cultivated in Ghana ! ❖ Implement regular updating of the datasets through crowdsourcing ! ❖ Develop mobile apps to support major stakeholders in the sector ! ❖ Collaboration with key stakeholders for sustainability of the initiatives ! ❖ Developing national capacity for development and consumption of geo- spatial data for improved agriculture !
15. THANK YOU !