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The Transition towards a Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: The Potential of Remote Sensing to Support Small Holder Farmers in West Africa

Meier, Jonas und Thonfeld, Frank und Heiss, Niklas und Traore, Pierre Sibiry C. und Nghotchouang, Celeste Tchapmi Nono und Mutuku, Janet Mumo und Tounkara, Sidy und Tall, Laure und Gessner, Ursula (2024) The Transition towards a Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: The Potential of Remote Sensing to Support Small Holder Farmers in West Africa. EO For Agriculture under Pressure 2024 Workshop, 2024-05-13 - 2024-05-16, Frascati, Italien.

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West Africa is facing two major challenges of the 21st century: climate change and population growth. Both are closely linked to food security in the region. Rising temperatures and increasingly variable precipitation threaten traditional rain-fed agriculture relying on the rainy season. Furthermore, West Africa has one of the highest population growth rates in the world, its population will increase to 1.2 billion people by 2050. To guarantee sufficient food supply and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), a sustainable intensification of agriculture is needed (i.e., increasing yields without additional land consumption and without adverse effects on climate change) and mitigation and adaption strategies against the negative effects of climate change are required. Sustainable intensification (SI) practices offer the opportunity to stabilize/increase yields and to operate more resource-efficiently. The implementation of SI practices are tasks of the farmers but incentives must be created to accompany the process to enable investments or bridge short term losses. Therefore, a monitoring system is needed. The monitoring of the implemented SI practices is time consuming, costly and over large areas not feasible. Remote sensing has proven to be a suitable instrument to monitor agriculture area and the management strategies in a reliable and cost-effective way. This study in the Senegal River Valley shows the potential of remote sensing to feed a monitoring system on field scale. To address the lack of field data, we trained a convolutional neural network (CNN) to delineate field boundaries from Planet data and monitor agricultural management on field level. The agricultural management like sowing and harvesting dates or irrigation and flooding events are identified using change detection in Sentinel-1 time series. Those data can be used in Manobi Africa’s agCelerant platform rewarding farmers implementation of SI practices and to link farmers with financial institutes like banks and insurance companies.

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Dokumentart:Konferenzbeitrag (Poster)
Titel:The Transition towards a Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture: The Potential of Remote Sensing to Support Small Holder Farmers in West Africa
Autoren:
AutorenInstitution oder E-Mail-AdresseAutoren-ORCID-iDORCID Put Code
Meier, JonasJonas.Meier (at) dlr.dehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0827-0406NICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Thonfeld, FrankFrank.Thonfeld (at) dlr.dehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3371-7206165148072
Heiss, Niklasniklas.heiss (at) dlr.deNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Traore, Pierre Sibiry C.pierre.sibiry.traore (at) manobi.comNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Nghotchouang, Celeste Tchapmi Nonoceleste.t.n.nghotchouang (at) manobi.comNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Mutuku, Janet Mumojanet.m.mutuku (at) manobi.comNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Tounkara, Sidysidy.tounkara (at) ipar.snNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Tall, Laurelaure.tall (at) ipar.snNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Gessner, Ursulaursula.gessner (at) dlr.deNICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Datum:13 Mai 2024
Referierte Publikation:Nein
Open Access:Ja
Gold Open Access:Nein
In SCOPUS:Nein
In ISI Web of Science:Nein
Status:veröffentlicht
Stichwörter:Smallholder Agriculture; SDG; Sustainable Intensification; West Africa; Remote Sensing; Land Use; Climate Adaptation; Monitoring; Implementation;
Veranstaltungstitel:EO For Agriculture under Pressure 2024 Workshop
Veranstaltungsort:Frascati, Italien
Veranstaltungsart:Workshop
Veranstaltungsbeginn:13 Mai 2024
Veranstaltungsende:16 Mai 2024
Veranstalter :European Space Agency
HGF - Forschungsbereich:Luftfahrt, Raumfahrt und Verkehr
HGF - Programm:Raumfahrt
HGF - Programmthema:Erdbeobachtung
DLR - Schwerpunkt:Raumfahrt
DLR - Forschungsgebiet:R EO - Erdbeobachtung
DLR - Teilgebiet (Projekt, Vorhaben):R - Fernerkundung u. Geoforschung
Standort: Oberpfaffenhofen
Institute & Einrichtungen:Deutsches Fernerkundungsdatenzentrum > Dynamik der Landoberfläche
Hinterlegt von: Meier, Jonas
Hinterlegt am:08 Aug 2024 11:25
Letzte Änderung:08 Aug 2024 11:25

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