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Christopher Auricht and John Dixon ACIAR 21 June 2012
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Spatial Data and Analysis in Support of Improved Policy and Planning
Christopher Auricht [email protected]
John [email protected]
ACIARCanberra 21 June 2012
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Talk outline Context and Background Needs Issues and status of spatial data Methodology used in developing an updated
farming systems dataset and analysis for Sub-Saharan Africa
Status and future work
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Facts According to CGIAR analysis
One billion of the worlds poor within Africa and Asia (those living on less than $1 per day) are fed primarily by: hundreds of millions of small-holder farmers (often
with less than 2 ha of land, several crops, and a cow or two), or
Herders (most with fewer than five large animals)
Solution Develop sustainable farming systems that
improve efficiency gains to produce increased food production
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One Billion People Suffer Chronic Hunger and Poverty
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Scale of Rural Hunger Nearly one billion people experience debilitation,
health-threatening hunger each year 4 out of 5 of these people are rural farmers
Trends in maize shortage in ZambiaPercentage of farm households with maize shortage
The Hunger Period
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Hunger Hotspots Superimposed on Farming Systems
Source: InterACADEMY Council 2004
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Background Business as usual investments in agriculture unlikely
to deliver sustainable solutions in many countries Numerous issues often identified as barriers to
progress e.g. inefficiencies in program delivery, political uncertainty etc. These are not the only problem!
Existing systems (often under stress) have been, and are expected to continue to accommodate large increases in population, increasing urbanisation, rising demand for animal products and competition for land and water
Forecasts suggesting that current practices will not stay abreast with population growth, environmental change and increasing demand for animal products.
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Needs Requires a strategic approach, an appreciation of
scale, and an understanding of the interactions between and within systems
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The current ACIAR project Builds on the work of Dixon et al 2001
www.fao.org/farmingsystems/
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2001 Farming Systems and Poverty Global study – part of the World Bank Rural Sector
Review Widely accepted as pioneering body of work – looked at
things as a ‘surface’ across landscape not confined by country borders
Largely driven by LGP/AEZ and market access, supplemented by expert opinion
Extensively used to guide investment at the program level and frame analysis in numerous global studies
Approach focused on high level farming systems within six developing regions
Involved use of various thematic data layers to underpin the delineation, characterisation / description and subsequent analysis of systems
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Kenya
Tanzania
Zimbabwe
Zambia
Moz
ambiqu
e
Uganda
Rwanda
Malawi
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900 0 900 Kilometers
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Major Farming Systems
1. Irrigation
2. Tree crop
3. Forest based
4. Rice-tree crop
5. Highland perennial
6. Highland temperate mixed
7. Root crops
8. Cereal-root crops mixed
9. Maize mixed
11. Agro-pastoral millet/sorghum
12. Pastoral
13. Sparse (arid)
14. Coastal artisanal fishing
Major Lakes
National Boundaries
Major rivers
Regional ProgrammeCountries
10. Large commercial and smallholder
Program Application
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Hunger Hotspots and Farming Systems
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Sub-Saharan Update Farming systems website in FAO still one of
the most visited sites within the organisation
Previous study 10 years old Consistent seamless datasets somewhat
limited in original work In need of updating as spatial extent of
systems and frame conditions changed e.g. climate, population, urbanisation, market access etc.
Many updated and new datasets available
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Current Situation 2012 – Large quantity of potential datasets – approx. 300
alone in the Harvest Choice database longitudinal and some predictive data now available
GAEZ 3.0 - 1,000’s of datasets representing 100’s of thematic layers
Challenge – which ones to use and how Strategic approach
Access and collation Assess (fit-for-purpose) and Prioritise (currency, coverage,
scale etc) Process Products Disseminate
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Methodology Work in collaborative fashion with authors and other large
data providers e.g. IFPRI – Harvest Choice, UN-FAO, ILRI, ICRAF, IIASA, CGIAR others
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Spatial and Tabular Data
Delineate new Farm-ing System Boundar-ies – Iterative pro-cess based on concept of central tendancy
Statistics and Anal-ysis
Characterise and describe systems
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Approach Integration of new datasets –
LGP and Market access Supporting Datasets
Population (rural, urban, total) Livestock – cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, LU and
TLU Crop areas and production Yield gaps Protected areas Poverty $2.00 and $1.25 /day Nutrition
ElevationSlope, aspect, drainageSettlements, ports, marketsRoad, rail, river, ICT networksMarket travel times & costs
Hunger, Poverty & Productivity Spatial Covariates/Proxies & Analytical Flow
Port travel times & costs
Terrain, Demography,
Infrastructure, Admin Units
ProductionEnvironment &
Constraints
ProductionSystems &
Performance
Interventions/Responses
Agroecological ZonesCropland extent & intensityPests & Diseases (Maize Stem Borer)Drought Incidence & SeverityRunoffAdministrative Units Farming SystemsCrop Suitability: Rainfed WheatCrop Distribution & YieldsValue of Production per Rural Person
NA
010
2030
40
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
100 80 60 40 20 0
IrrigationThreshold
% of AvailableSoil Water
MaizeYield
Potentialt[DM]/ha
Fertilizer Application Ratekg[N]/ha
Yield Responses to Inputs, Management, CCProfitability of small scale irrigationQuantity of Nutrients RemovedFertilizer ProfitabilityDistribution of Welfare Benefits
Linkage toMacroModels
Aggregate to FPUs
Source: HarvestChoice 2010
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Changes between 2001 and 2012
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Updated FS Boundaries and LGP
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Yield Gap – Aggregate of Major Crops
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Big questions for management and policy
What is it? Where is it? What are its characteristics and how does it
operate ? What are the risks/threats ? What are the opportunities (Research / Extension)
? How changing with time ? Evaluation and Performance
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Spatial data Tool to support process Understand Analyse Develop interventions Monitor Not the answer in itself
has limitations Fit for purpose Complement with expert knowledge
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Thanks Acknowledgements
ACIAR IFPRI – Harvest Choice CGIAR ILRI ICRAF FAO IIASA others
Questions & Discussion