Mar 7, 2013 by Jagger Harvey - 0 comments

Aspergillus and Aflatoxin in African Maize Farms

Photo credit: James Karanja, KARI

May 28-June 1, 2012 (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania): As part of a multidisciplinary and multinational collaboration, a team of researchers representing several research institutions met to discuss the growing aflatoxin problem in sub-Saharan Africa.

Tags: Aflatoxins, Africa, Agricultural Pests, Cereals, Crops, Kenya, Maize Production, Pest Management, Tanzania, Maize, Farming

Jun 18, 2012 by Cindy Cox - 0 comments

IFPRI Magazine Features MAPPR: Mapping African Agriculture

The June 2012 issue of Insights, IFPRI’s quarterly magazine, talks up HarvestChoice’s increasingly popular online tool: MAPPR. So friendly to use that a writer and a graphics designer combined wits to create the MAPPR-generated visuals for the article.

Tags: Africa, Agroecology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Mapping, MAPPR, Spatial Analysis, Sub-Saharan Africa, Demographics, Farming, Productivity, Markets

May 22, 2012 by Jawoo Koo - 0 comments

FourSquare 4 Farming?

While we were brainstorming “big ideas” at a recent working retreat, we stumbled upon the idea of promoting FourSquare as a tool to monitor smallholder farmers’ crop management practices.

Tags: Agricultural Statistics, Communication, Farming Systems, Social Media, Production, Farming

May 14, 2012 by Cindy Cox - 0 comments

Esri features HarvestChoice (Again!) in FARMD Article

Fueled by a commitment to help society, agriculture is on Esri's mind. In fact, the World Bank asked them to write about it for FARMD: The Forum for Agricultural Risk Management in Development. And what did Esri –The global leader in Geographic Information System (GIS) software and geodatabase management applications – write about? HarvestChoice!

Tags: Africa, Esri, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), HarvestChoice, Markets, Risk, Sub-Saharan Africa, Targeting/Priority Setting, Market Access, Risk, Markets, Policy

Apr 17, 2012 by Jeff Horwich - 0 comments

Risk: What It Means to Us, and Why It Matters (Video)

Risk: we all know what that means, right? But why is it such a critical part of our HarvestChoice portfolio, what does it mean when you look through the lens of farming in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Tags: Africa, Agricultural Pests, Agroecology, Climate, Communication, Crop Yields, Pest Management, Rainfall, Risk, Sub-Saharan Africa, United States, Videos, Weather, Weather and Climate, Risk, Pests and Diseases, Production, Farming, Productivity, Policy

Apr 3, 2012 by Cindy Cox - 0 comments

Esri Website Features HarvestChoice MAPPR Interface

Whether you work directly with spatial data or simply reap the benefits by tapping into mapped data products, you’ve probably heard of Esri.

Tags: Esri, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), HarvestChoice, Infrastructure and Transportation, Mapping, MAPPR, Market Access, Time of Travel, Market Access, Markets

Mar 23, 2012 by Jeff Horwich - 0 comments

How We're Pioneering the Mapping of Pests (Video)

Jason Beddow of HarvestChoice and the University of Minnesota, along with Darren Kriticos of CSIRO, explain how HarvestChoice is revolutionizing the science of tracking -- and predicting -- the paths of devastating crop pests and diseases such as UG99.

Tags: Agricultural Pests, Agroecology, Cereals, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Communication, Crop Diseases, Mapping, Pest Management, Pest Mapping, Pest Modeling, Risk, Rusts, Stem Rust, UG99, Videos, Wheat, Risk, Land Cover , Pests and Diseases, Farming, Policy

Feb 21, 2012 by Jeff Horwich - 0 comments

CSIRO and HarvestChoice

CSIRO and HarvestChoice: Our Partnership to Take on Global Hunger

Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and HarvestChoice are now working together to apply innovative, “bio-economic” approaches to improve the food security of poor people in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Together, our organizations will merge biological, environmental and economic tools to track global food pests and better target strategic investments to improve global food security. 

Tags: Africa, Agroecology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Communication, Crop Diseases, HarvestChoice, Models, Pest Management, Rusts, Stem Rust, Sub-Saharan Africa, Targeting/Priority Setting, UG99, Videos, Risk, Land Cover , Pests and Diseases, Production, Farming, Policy

Jan 17, 2012 by Carlo Azzarri - 0 comments

Deriving Sub-National Population Estimates for Sub-Saharan Africa

In previous releases of HarvestChoice 5-arc minute population (up to SChEF r12.03) we relied exclusively on population maps from CIESIN Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, version 1 (GRUMPv1 at 30-arc second) combined to more recent national estimates from WDI.

Tags: Africa, Census, Gender, Household Surveys, Population, Population, Sub-Saharan Africa, Demographics

Jan 17, 2012 by Carlo Azzarri - 0 comments

Deriving Sub-national Poverty Estimates for Sub-Saharan Africa

HarvestChoice in collaboration with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) produced a new series of sub-national poverty maps for sub-Saharan Africa ...

Tags: Africa, Household Surveys, Households, Poverty, Purchasing Power, Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), Sub-Saharan Africa, Income and Poverty, Demographics

Sep 30, 2011 by Stanley Wood - 0 comments

HarvestChoice and ReSAKSS workshop 2011

First ReSAKSS/HarvestChoice Nairobi Workshop A Big Success (Video)

Just wrapped up three days in Nairobi with our colleagues at the Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKSS), pulling together agricultural production and research experts from around East and Central Africa to share our tools and learn how we can make our data products work better for them.

Tags: Communication, Productivity Measures, Regional Strategic Analysis and Knowledge Support System (ReSAKKS), Targeting/Priority Setting, Videos, Research Policy, Technology Evaluation, Production, Farming, Productivity, Policy
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