Presentation by Foster Mensah, Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services, University of Ghana, Legon-Accra Session: Experiences in Implementing ICT Solutions in Farmer Organisations on 7 Nov 2013, ICT4Ag, Kigali, Rwanda

1. ONLINE GIS PLATFORM
FOR
AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN GHANA
Foster Mensah
Centre for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services
University of Ghana
Legon-Accra

2. About THE ONLINE GIS PLATFORM
• Provide access to agric-related spatial data in a user-friendly mode
• Improve spatial data management and dissemination
• Provide on-line tools for extracting and sharing data and information
• Visualizing data across themes
• Access to quality data necessary for implementing agric projects
• Opportunity for enhancing quality of data disseminated
• Opportunity to scale up the availability of spatial data for agriculture
development
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3. http://www.gis4ghagric.net
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5. Land cover
Metadata
Elevation
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6. Crops
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7. Soils
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8. Climate
MEAN ANNUAL RAINFALL
EVAPOTRANSPIRATION
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9. Land Suitability
Cowpea
Millet
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10. Distribution of agro-related investment activities
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12. Agric Statistics
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13. Agric Statistics
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14. Agric Statistics
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15. Agric Statistics
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16. Agric Statistics
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17. Agric Statistics
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18. Way Forward….
• Establish workspace for Development Partners (DPs)
• Map agric-related investment activities by DPs
• Map FBO investments, farm boundary and farm
attributes
• Provide GIS, GPS mapping services and Applications
dev to projects in the agriculture sector
• Follow up users’ needs and adaptation
• Ensuring system sustainability
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19. THANK YOU !
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