Seeing is believing is the name of one of our AGCommons supported projects, one that seeks to demonstrate the value of very high resolution imagery to help scale up a few quick-win productivity enhancement technologies in 10 smallholder communities across Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali and Niger. The project is coordinated by Pierre T. Sibiry of ICRISAT, one of the CGIAR centers.

It builds on participatory research activities – this picture is worth a thousand words!

This picture also reminded me of other posts we published during our ShareFair events: an interview with Silvia Renn: Banning Powerpoint and a post Silvia wrote about work done by Peter Casier at the World Food Programme  and his “Powerpoint? No thanks!“

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For example, during a previous attempt to contain a banana disease outbreak, some smallholder farmers in Uganda were told to cut the male bud from their banana trees – sound advice designed to stop the spread of the disease by bees attracted to the buds.  However, the information they received was incomplete: the very act of cutting the buds using the same contaminated tool meant that entire plantations were instantly wiped out. No wonder, then, that smallholder farmers began to doubt the information given to them.

The agricultural challenges in Uganda are numerous, but the country’s agricultural scientists now have the potential to confront some of the obstacles that smallholder farmers are facing. An AGCommons Quick Win Project (Community Level Crop Disease Surveillance), which was part of the much larger Community Knowledge Worker (CKW) Project being implemented by the Grameen Foundation, has played a small but valuable role in testing a mobile crop monitoring system that will ultimately allow research institutions to target data collection and interact directly with smallholder farmers in the field.

AGCommons recently caught up with Whitney Gantt, an ICT Innovation Technical Program Officer with the Grameen Foundation and the leader of the recently-completed Quick Win Project, shortly after it was announced that the CKW Project had just received a grant of US$4.7 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to scale up its activities.

Were you expecting the grant from the Gates Foundation?

We were expecting the grant, but we are still very excited about it. We initially had a planning grant from the Gates Foundation to assess the feasibility of the CKW model, and after that came the Quick Wins grant, through which we were able to deepen the concept and test a very specific application of the model. I think that really strengthened our ability to demonstrate the model’s potential impact.

What does the CKW model entail?

Basically, the Grameen Foundation goes out into rural communities and finds, recruits, motivates and trains village community members, or community-based information officers known as CKWs, who can provide services to farmers using mobile phones, thereby helping to lift the farmers out of poverty.

Under the AGCommons project, farmers were given the information they needed on banana disease control as well as a range of other topics under the CKW: market prices, input supplier directories, weather forecasts, agronomics tips and techniques, an agricultural hotline and a call center. Normally, farmers can’t access such information, either because it’s too distant to travel to see their agricultural extension officer, or because the information doesn’t exist in a way that allows for it to be disseminated easily and cost effectively. At the same time, the CKW also collects information about farmer needs and challenges and feeds it back to the research institutes, private companies, government agencies and NGOs serving the farmers. This is done via mobile phones to a central data base, where the information is then packaged and analyzed for consumption by a range of actors.

How did you recruit the CKWs?

We looked for people motivated by community outreach. Other factors such as literacy and fluency in English were also considered – the project’s short time period didn’t allow us to develop services in multiple languages. Local partners already working with farmers helped identify candidates to undergo a trial period. We whittled the number down to 38 in the end. The idea was not to create new farmer associations or another entity, but to complement the systems already on the ground and give farmers knowledge, training and tools to extend their reach further.

How did the smallholder farmers respond to the CKW model?

They embraced it quite a bit. CKW’s would go to farmers groups or markets, or to wherever people congregated, to advertise their services. Then they would carry out a survey to inform farmers of the diseases on their plantations and give recommendations on how to address those diseases. In the process, we discovered there was much more demand for the CKWs than we were actually able to fill. Farmers outside the CKW’s service area were also requesting that we carry out a survey. When we carried out a survey on one farm, we often had people from neighbouring farms and communities coming to observe and learn how to control diseases.

A local CKW guaranteed consistency and also gained the trust of the farmers. Farmers have faith in a trained CKW who also happens to be one of their own. During our follow-up visits (there were 3000 surveys and 100 follow-ups) we discovered that in all of the cases, at least some of the recommendations had already been adopted.

Who were the other players in this project?

The project was a collaborative effort involving the Grameen Foundation, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Uganda’s National Agriculture Research Organization (NARO), MTN Public Access Uganda, AGCommons, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. IITA and NARO jointly trained the CKWs in disease identification and control techniques, conducted follow-up visits to take plant samples and carried out lab analysis of the samples to test the CKWs’ ability to accurately identify diseases. IITA also carried out scientific and geospatial analysis of the survey results.

Will the new grant from the Gates Foundation enable you to go back to those communities helped under the Quick Win Project and pickup where you left off?

We do have to look geographically at what our priority will be based on the partnerships that we’ve formed, but I’m sure we will continue working in those communities where we were piloting. However, we are also casting the net further afield now and hope to try and expand the network to 4000 CKWs and cover a large portion of the country over the next four years.

How sustainable is the CKW model in the long term?

There is sustainability at two different levels. There will be micro-entrepreneur opportunities for the CKWs, whereby they can take a loan out from an MFI (Microfinance Institution) to purchase a kit containing everything they need to carry out their work: a phone, a phone charging solution and possibly a bicycle, depending on their needs. There is a huge demand for data collection, with organizations, government agencies, and companies willing to spend money on sourcing data. CKWs can be trained to collect data at a much lower cost than that offered by existing data collection systems.

In terms of the organizational sustainability, we anticipate a demand for surveys, which would support the organization over time. As we exit at the end of the four-year grant period, I hope to see a self-sustaining organization in place that might become its own NGO in Uganda or be subsumed under a couple of their partners, who might take it up as part of their program.

What did you gain personally from this project?

I have gained a tremendous amount on a professional level. The project had so many different moving parts, and just by figuring out how those intersected, I have learned quite a bit about project management and was able to improve my analysis and strategy skills. It was also very rewarding to see CKWs, many of whom didn’t even know how to text on the phone and felt hesitant about their role as information resources when first recruited, grow over time and take great pride in the role they played in serving their communities and the passion with which many of them carried out their duties.

Looking ahead, what sort of role would you like to see this type of model playing in Uganda in the future?

I think there is great potential for the CKW model to completely transform the agricultural extension approach and framework, and not just in Uganda. The potential of mobile tools and the ease with which we can leverage those within the system set up and the work that it can create in developing countries is amazing. And these are tools that a lot of people already have in their hands. I see this model being adopted more broadly by the ministry or the government. At the same time, there is the potential to impact the agricultural sector much more broadly in terms of extension networks obtaining information about communities that are presently very disconnected: communities that don’t have the services they need, or a voice to talk about their challenges and experiences. The element of sustainability will also open up doors, not just within extension but also within the whole agricultural sector and really improve a number of points along the value chains.

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AGCommons a CGIAR-delivered project using maps and other local information to help farmers in rural Africa

In Africa, for Africa, with Africa.

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To help plug this gap, one of AGCommons’ Quick Win Projects is well on its way to demonstrating that reliable road maps covering remote regions are now within affordable reach. A recent interview with two people behind the Roads Data Development in Ethiopia Project, Olivier Cottray and Anna Schemper, both with iMMAP, revealed that road data is already being put to use on the ground in Ethiopia.

How did the idea for this project come about?

Olivier Cottray (OC): The model for this Quick Win Project is based on something iMMAP worked on in South Sudan for the UN Joint Logistics Centre, where we essentially used the same process of training staff in various agencies to map the roads they travelled on. At that time, we used paper-based data collection forms, which were cumbersome and time consuming compared to our present collection methods. Nonetheless, it was a successful project, and we were hoping to see the same, or at least an enhanced version of that, in Ethiopia. While I provide general oversight, Anna is responsible for the field coordination of the project.

Anna Schemper (AS): Although iMMAP is leading the project, it is a collaborative effort involving Columbia University’s Centre for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) and the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD). We also benefit from logistical support from the World Food Programme (WFP) in Ethiopia. I was already in the country for a year seconded by iMMAP to WFP’s logistics unit before the project started; and as it turns out, WFP is currently undergoing a logistics capacity review, so the project folds in quite well with the organization’s objectives, which is why they can support us logistically.

What sort of device do you use to collect data?

OC: Several WFP offices have been allocated GPS-enabled PDA units with a customised data entry interface based on CyberTracker. We had several meetings with WFP staff in Addis Ababa to determine the tool’s practicability and field-readiness before developing the training materials to be used in conjunction with it. The road data collected through this project will contribute to the wider gROADS initiative to compile a freely accessible, consistent and accurate global database of roads.

How many WFP staff have you trained to collect data and how successful has this been?

AS: So far we have trained at least 100 people. I have conducted most of the training sessions and focused mainly on the Somali region of Ethiopia, which is our priority area. However, RCMRD also contributed by training a group of data collectors to cover a broader area of the country outside Somali region. Initially, there was some reluctance on the part of WFP staff to participate, but the organization has since made it mandatory for trained staff to collect data when they’re on mission in the field. Since then we’ve had data coming in pretty consistently.  I liaise closely with each sub office to make sure I get the mission schedules for the field staff, which I review every couple of weeks and then use to coordinate data collection. We also establish an ICT focal person in each office to retrieve the information, upload it and send it back to WFP’s country office in Addis Ababa. We currently have 17 PDA units out in the field, so we are still at the height of data collection.

OC: The data have actually been coming in a lot faster than at the onset of the project. Anna has also been providing follow-up training when necessary and troubleshooting and getting rid of glitches in terms of getting data back to Addis Ababa.

When do you expect to conclude the data collection?

AS: it will end on November 30 this year when the project concludes. As data come in, we send them to CIESIN for data processing, so they are being processed incrementally.

What will your main outputs be?

OC: The main output will be a roads data set. It will be a combination of the data we’ve collected in the field, the data that already existed and data that are also being extracted from satellite imagery and combined into one more complete roads data set than ever existed before.

Who are your possible end users?

OC: As far as the work we are doing directly with WFP, the end use is in logistics planning. The derived products, which are road maps, can then be used by any other agency that needs them for their operational planning.

Do you have a sense of how far beyond WFP the map products will be used, or is it purely internal to the WFP?

AS: It won’t be purely internal. One thing that we need to work out over the next month is how the data will be disseminated once the gROADs plan is up and running.  But from what I understand from the local NGO and UN community here, there is a lot of interest from other organizations that are keen to get their hands on this information and also contribute to it. WFP Ethiopia Logistics is carrying out a logistics capacity assessment right now by gathering all data that are relevant for logistics operations in Ethiopia. We just had a meeting with UNICEF and WHO and other organizations currently working in Ethiopia in the field where we talked about the gROADS initiative, and many organizations requested that they have access to the data collection units so that they could collect data for us over the next few months. Really, there is more demand than we can handle, even when it comes to data collection. And I think all these organizations are interested in getting the final data set as well.

How will this ultimately help the smallholder farmers?

OC: The rationale of the project in the context of farming is that the better roads data will help agencies and organizations that are supporting farmers to look at accessibility to markets. Location information is also being collected for infrastructure of importance to small holder farmers such as irrigation equipment; water reservoirs; community grain storage or fertilizer warehouses; and agricultural extension offices.

AS: One great example of how the roads data are being used is in the targeting of WFP’s Purchase for Progress (P4P) Programme, which gives farmers the information and tools they need to get a better price for their produce.

How have you benefitted from this project?

AS: In specific cases, WFP has already been using raw data collected by gROADS units to cross reference reports we receive from the field. For example, if problems such as flooding arise, or a bridge goes out, we can look at the gROADS data for location confirmation and then start considering alternate routes;—so, it’s great to have the data available. I wish we had more. We have a limited time to collect data and the collection went much more slowly than we had hoped initially, but that’s probably the norm.

What do you hope to see happening as an outcome of this project?

OC: The idea is to use Ethiopia as a proof of concept. So we really hope to try and scale this up by mapping Africa more globally than at a regional level. One of the big focuses of IMMAP’s work is giving logistical support to UN agencies, so experience in mapping roads quickly and efficiently is definitely something we want to continue building up.

Click here for an enlarged version of the gROADS map above.

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There will be sessions on common issues related to Knowledge Management and Knowledge Sharing among the Rome-based international organizations. Organizers and invited participants are practitioners, information managers, project managers, and facilitators as well as those involved in projects with knowledge management and knowledge sharing components.

Colleagues from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Development Law Organization (IDLO), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), World Food Programme (WFP) and the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) will be participating…

Antonella Pastore, Michael Marus and I will be representing the CGIAR’s ICT-KM program; so watch our for more news about this event later this week.

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To  give an extra push to our efforts, we joined forced in the CIARD partnership. To ensure that public domain research outputs – in the form of information, data and knowledge – form part of a global ‘knowledge commons’ for agriculture, these outputs should be created, assembled, handled and disseminated in ways that ensure that they will be as Available, Accessible and Applicable as possible.

With our partners we have developed the CIARD Pathways to provide an introduction to the many ways in which research outputs can be made more available, accessible and applicable.

Who can use these pathways? policymakers, research directors, researchers and information specialists. There are pathways for everyone..

Amongst the CIARD Pathways, there are several which focus particularly on areas of change in both policy frameworks and individual researcher behavior which will help to prepare an institution to stimulate the dissemination of research outputs.  These pathways have been placed in Group 1, called “Developing Institutional Readiness”.

For those people involved with the development of a repository or structured website, some Pathways focus on best practice technical and policy approaches to ensure that websites/repositories fulfil their purpose of making research outputs more accessible and available.  These pathways have been placed in Group 2, called: “Increasing the Availability and Accessibility of Research Outputs – Collection and Preservation”.

Reaching beyond producing digital content and placing it in a repository or on a website, there are some pathways addressing making research outputs easily accessible and transformation of those outputs to communicate them to different stakeholders.  These Pathways have been placed in Group 3 called: “Increasing the Availability and Accessibility of Research Outputs – Making Content Widely Accessible on the Web”

We plan to revise these pathways periodically, add new ones, remove the ones that no longer make sense… This process of enhancement will be continuous, given that Pathways will change as new innovations arise.  You will notice now the Pathways are in English, but we have plans to translate them in French, Spanish, and possibly in other languages, so that they can be more widely accessible.

Our efforts go beyond… in a previous post, we introduced Mendley. We received very good feedback and now are planning a series of webinars to introduce this tool and train in its use…

Stay tuned for more…as our efforts to support researchers use effective techniques to better conduct their work are just about to step up again!

One step at a time we will make those pigs fly!

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Agriculture is intimately tied to its location in the landscape and, by extension, to key conditions strongly influenced by location, particularly climate, soil and water availability. This link to geospatial factors is probably stronger for agriculture than any other economic sector. Geospatial information is critical to good decision making throughout the agriculture sector – from farmers to input suppliers, researchers, extension agencies and policy makers. With rapid progress in information and communications technology, the potential for using spatial information in Africa to improve the livelihoods and productivity of poor farmers has never been greater.

Recognizing the importance of geospatial information, while acknowledging the inadequate access to existing geospatial data, tools, and analyses, especially in Africa, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation initiated its Geospatial Technology Program through the Agricultural Development initiative of its Global Development Program.  AGCommons (Agricultural Geospatial Commons) was launched under the administrative oversight of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in partnership with Spatial Development International.

The first nine months of 2009 were spent identifying opportunities and selecting the focus for AGCommons. The AGCommons team, working with a steering committee of subject matter experts covering agriculture and geospatial technology, conducted interviews, consultations and conferences that engaged more than 300 individuals across West and East Africa. The focus is now on developing and supporting an Africa-based service bureau that can provide innovation and expertise in the development, delivery and use of location-specific data and information services for improved decision making by smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as by the public institutions and private sector who serve them.

The Opportunity

The AGCommons team has been hard at work identifying gaps in data, technology and services as well as determining potential clients, collaborators and funding sources to carry the Program into the future.

The Program is now seeking an established, Africa-based entrepreneur to lead and shape the future direction of this challenging information technology initiative.

The ideal candidate should have a strong entrepreneurial drive, a proven track record of successful business starts, and experience working in Africa. The ability to build and coordinate an effective team to develop the service bureau, deliver services and establish and maintain a technical platform are also necessary attributes.

Specifically the candidate should have:

• Technology domain expertise and a desire to apply that knowledge for economic and social benefit and/or the application of technology to agricultural development
• The ability to contribute or mobilize external resources to support the effort
• An understanding of the cultural dynamics of working and developing a business in Africa
• A proven track record of successfully running or operating a business or organization in Africa
• Domain knowledge of geospatial and mobile technology and/or the application of technology to agricultural development

The successful candidate will be involved in all aspects of the business, including staffing, business development, and financial accounting, as well as the overall vision and business direction. He or she will enjoy the partnership and support of committed donors and established institutions including The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID. The ICT-KM Program of the CGIAR is providing transition leadership, and institutional support in forming the business and meeting administrative needs. In addition, NASA and RCMRD are technical partners in platform development and stakeholder outreach.

Looking Ahead

The most immediate tasks to be undertaken by AGCommons now include:

• Developing the infrastructure to broadly deliver and potentially collect geospatial information on a variety of platforms while providing a place to store and a means by which to share geospatial data, along with common solutions to achieve economies of scale and consistency across agriculture development projects
• Developing a business plan for the service bureau, engaging potential client partners to understand their requirements for geospatial services and establish working relationships
• Identifying strategic investment opportunities and potential co-funders for the business moving forward
• Defining and launching the venture and identifying core staff.

While these activities are being carried out over the transitional period by the Program team under the programmatic and administrative leadership of the CGIAR, the entrepreneurial AGCommons leader should be involved at an early stage to take ownership of the endeavor as it develops from a funded development initiative to an independent stand-alone business over the next several years.

Timing

The AGCommons team is seeking candidates for this extraordinary opportunity through the end of 2009 and will make a selection in early 2010.

More Information

http://www.agcommons.org/

email: ictkm@cgiar.org

Image courtesy of Nikola Chuhlev via http://www.sxc.hu

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One of the five AGCommons’ Quick Win Projects, Community Level Crop Disease Surveillance, has achieved an important result. As a component of the larger Community Knowledge Workers (CKW) Project implemented by the Grameen Foundation, it has contributed to demonstrate the potential of the CKW model. The CKW Project is scaling up its activities after receiving a huge boost in the form of a $4.7 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AGCommons is proud to have contributed to its success.

The grant will enable the CKW Project to expand its activities in Uganda, where it is building a self-sustaining, scalable network of rural information providers who use cell phones to get vital information to smallholder farmers.

As one of the components of the CKW Project, the AGCommons Quick Win Project trained 40 CKWs in two Ugandan districts to interact with more than 14,000 smallholder farmers and conduct 6,000 surveys, all of which helped organizations such as the World Food Program and IITA better understand the needs of the farmers. IITA also created Geographic Information System (GIS) maps that provided farmers with vital information about crop disease outbreaks and the impact of disease control methods, to name a few.

During the Quick Win Project’s nine-month duration, farmers regularly turned to the CKWs for information on the treatment of pests, accurate weather forecasts, and how to maximize their crop incomes. For example, a groundnut farmer who lost his crop when the rains came late contacted his local CKW, who gave him access to regular weather forecasts and enabled him to plan the rest of his planting season and preserve his livelihood.

The CKW model is simple, efficient and effective. Once a request is received from a farmer, the CKW will use a cell phone to access the relevant information. At the same time, CKWs collect agricultural information from farmers, providing a vital link between farmers, government programs, and non-governmental organizations. The second phase of this initiative will enable more farmers to access a cell phone to contact trained professionals tasked with sharing knowledge and information with them. Indeed, the Grameen Foundation plans to build on its experience gained from the Quick Win Project to develop a self-sustaining national network capable of reaching more than 200,000 farmers.

The grant is part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Agricultural Development initiative and was announced as part of a larger package of agricultural development projects in conjunction with Bill Gates’ keynote address at last week’s World Food Prize Symposium in Des Moines, Iowa.

The five Quick Win project funded by AGCommons cover a range of technologies and African geographies. They span a variety of different links with end-users – from direct work with farmers (“Seeing is Believing” project) to collaboration at the research level to create access to valuable data sets that can be used on the farmers’ behalf (“Africa Trial Site Catalogue”). Scheduled for completion by the end of 2009, they are already meeting one of their goals: to provide a learning opportunity that offers the potential for scaling up benefits to farmers in the future.

Photo courtesy Guido Ric via stock.xchng

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This is where we will be posting our latest news, upcoming events, articles on the latest ICT-KM tools and methodologies, interviews, but also where you can find all the background about our work, what we have done, what our strategy is, who the people behind the scenes are.

Feel free to leave comments on the various posts. There are also lots of links to the social media we use the most such as pictures, videos and twitter.

Our website is now powered by Wordpress, the platform we used to host our old blog. Using a blogging platform to host our website has enabled us to incorporate our blog and our static content pages into a convenient one-stop site, making it easier for our audience to see at a glance what we are doing. In addition, the site’s archive structure allows you to search all posts either by category or by month.

Making the move to a full blog platform was not a pain-free experience. We had many architecture and theme choices to make, design elements that had to be considered and tweaked, old blog posts and static content pages that had to be manually transferred, and aslt but not least a problem with our DNS which delayed the go-live date … What was that old mantra? No pain, no gain? But the end result, a site that is better equipped to cater to our growing audience, makes it all worthwhile.

We will share the ins and outs of the choices we made behind the scenes soon. Maybe even start a series on what to look out for when designing a new web2.0-enabled site.

Today also marks the unveiling of our new logotype, which has been designed to better reflect more accurately our tag line: Collaborate, Communicate, Create …

We’ll be adding new content on a regular basis, so check back soon or, better still, subscribe to our RSS feed!

We’d also love to hear your views or suggestions on the new site – so please feel free to drop us a line or two at ictkm@cgiar.org.

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In conjunction with the Conference, AGCommons will organize WhereCampAfrica-Kampala to be held on 30 October. After the success of WhereCamp Africa-Nairobi, this will be the second gathering of its kind to take place in Africa and the first one in Kampala.

WhereCamp, a free ‘unconference’ for geogeographers, mobile location experts, social cartographers and all kinds of folks interested in place, is an opportunity for participants to present ideas, questions, projects, politics, and technical issues that people have – and contribute to and get feedback from other participants. More information at www.agcommons.org and www.wherecampafrica.org.

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