GEODATA FOR AGRICULTURE AND WATER

Space for Food Security

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• Reaching over 4,5 million smallholders• Providing them with useful and timely (agrometeorological) and/or (fi nancial/insurance) products• Improving sustainable food production, increase the eff ective use of inputs (water, nutrients, seeds, pesticides)• Economic development in participating countries• Stimulating private investments• Financially sustainable services aft er 3 years• Improved food security and income

23 Projects & partnershipsOver 120 organisations across 14 partner countries have initiated a total of 23 G4AWprojects. Their business cases are all based on cooperation, aff ordability, sustainability andempowerment in a local context. They aim to bridge the entire information chain fromsatellite to soil; space for food security.

G4AW Goals

The opportunity: space for food securityThe combination of improved mobileconnectivity, new satellite services andprivate investments offers the opportunityfor scaling up innovations to large-scaleimplementation and operations. Agrowing fleet of earth observation satellitesencircling our planet guarantee a continuingglobal coverage and provision of freeobjective data.

Geodata, converted to relevant informationon climate, weather and hazards, helpsfood producers and other stakeholdersin developing countries; they can accessmarket information and customised, timelyagricultural advice, as well as warnings ofnatural hazards like floodings or droughts.

Increasing the quantity and quality ofcommunication networks empowersmillions of food producers in remote areasto make better decisions. Combined withthese services, micro-insurances and/or micro credits can help guarantee thecontinuity of food production.

The Geodata for Agriculture and Water(G4AW) Facility promotes and supportsprivate investments for large scale, demanddriven and satellite based informationservices. It provides a platform forpartnerships of public organisations,research institutes, private sector operators,NGO’s, farmer cooperatives, satellitedata/service operators, businesses andtransmission operators, developing spacefor food security.

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A global challenge: Feeding the futureThe food producers of our planetface the extraordinary challengeof feeding 9 billion people bythe year 2050. As a consequenceof climate change, there will bea growing competition in usingwater and finding fertile land.Further, reliable weather forecastsfor food producers are scarcelyavailable in developing countries.

G4AW projects and partner countries:

Access to market information and customised, timely agricultural advice.

G4AW partner countries

Country Project Lead Partner Target group Call Project Start

Bangladesh GEOBIS LTSeed Potato, rice, vegetable 2 2015Bangladesh GEOPOTATO Wageningen University Potato 2 2015Bangladesh IDSS ACI Rice, vegetable 2 2015Burkina Faso MODHEM SNV Grass (pastoralist) 2 2016Burundi GAP4A AUXFIN International Various 3 2018Cambodia AngkorSalad ICCO Vegetables 3 2018Ethiopia CommonSense Alterra Sesame, sorghum 1 2015Ethiopia GIACIS University of Twente-ITC Rain fed arable crops (insurance) 1 2014Ghana Sat4Farming Rainforest Alliance Cocoa 3 2018Indonesia G4INDO Wageningen University Rice (insurance) 1 2014Indonesia SMARTseeds ICCO Chilli, tomato, cucumber 2 2016Indonesia SpiceUp Verstegen Spices & Sauces Pepper 3 2018Kenya CROPMON SoilCares Coffee, maize, grass, sorghum, cereals 2 2015Kenya/Tanzania GEODATICS ICS Maize, legume crops 2 2015Mali STAMP SNV Grass (pastoralist) 2 2015Mali/Uganda SUM Africa EARS Maize, millet, rice, sorghum (insurance) 1 2014Myanmar MYVAS4AGRI Myanma Awba Group Rice, green and black gram, maize,

groundnut, potato and sesame3 2018

Myanmar SAM Impact Terra Rice, maize 3 2018South Africa R4A ARC Various 2 2015Tanzania SIKIA TechForce Innovations Rice 2 2016Uganda MUISS CTA Maize, soya bean, bens, sesame 2 2015Vietnam Sat4Rice VinaNed Rice 2 2015Vietnam GREENcoffee ICCO Coffee 2 2016