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GIS Portal Streamlines Aquaculture and Fisheries in Africa
Jessica Wyland, ESRI Writer
10 June 2008
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him to use GIS and he will develop informed, sustainable practices in aquaculture and inland fisheries management.
Aquaculture plays an increasingly important role in the global economy, and fisheries contribute significantly to poverty alleviation and food security. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations has worked for decades to promote sustainable aquaculture and fisheries in developing countries.
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 Africa worst levels of malnutrition
30 May 2008
How bad is the malnutrition situation in Africa? According to UNICEF it is estimated that 120,000 children have less than one month to live in Ethiopia. Several countries in central and western Africa face similar levels of malnutrition as Ethiopia. Some of the interventions that can be implemented to fight malnutrition include appropriate complementary feeding, exclusive breastfeeding, feeding of sick children, women’s nutrition, vitamin A supplements, anaemia reduction, and consumption of iodized salt. Fortification of food is a key intervention and can include the fortification of oil, wheat, and maize flour.
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 Sahel and East Africa have high vulnerability regions
March 2008
Areas of the Sahel and parts of East Africa are some of the most vulnerable in Africa. To do these vulnerability analyses requires access to high resolution data which is not always available. Baseline data is needed to improve targeting of the neediest areas and prioritising the implementation of programmes. The research argues that targeted local approaches and interventions to climate change and vulnerability is needed. Collaboration is needed to collect the required data.
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 Land use classification of Quickbird imagery in Zambia
17 June 2007
A project focusing on the Magodi area of Zambia showed that a combination of principal component analysis and vegetation indices provided the most accurate classification of land use. The research shows the use of error matrices and Kappa statistics to calculate the accuracy of the classification. It also includes the use of randomly sampled reference data points in testing the accuracy of the classification.
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 Poverty mapping approaches - much still to do
2003
This publication by the FAO provides a very good overview of poverty mapping and the methods presently being used to produce them. What it also emphasises is that there is still much to learn and do in improving poverty mapping methods. Various methods can be used but it is very dependent on many factors including the objectives of the exercise, philosophical views, data availability, analytical capability and costs.
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The Human Sciences Research Council's (HSRC) Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Centre and EIS-AFRICA have decided that it is imperative to develop a geo-information research portal that will ensure the establishment of a forum for a vigorous engagement by African researchers. It is AGIRN's mission to be the premier knowledge portal for Africa's Geoinformation researchers, practitioners and decision-makers where research papers, project findings and policy guidelines to enrich policy debate are published and accessed and to support decision-making through the use of appropriate web-based technologies.
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