Karsten Vennemann & Matt Stevenson Seattle

1. Supporting International Agricultural Research Projectsusing Open Source GISA Report on how GIS is used to help the Collaborative Crop Research Project (CCRP) Karsten Vennemann & Matt StevensonSeattle

2. Talk Outline • What is the Collaborative Crop Research Project (CCRP) ? • What are the goals of CCRP ? • What are the goals of the GIS support for CCRP ? • Approach taken to implement GIS support for CCRP • Conclusions

3. A project of the McKnight Foundation

4. CCRP is one project of McKnight

5. Goals of CCRP • Vision • Ensure a world where all have access to nutritious food, sustainably produced by local people. • How • collaborative agroecological systems research and knowledge-sharingstrengthening the capacities of smallholder farmers, research institutes, and development organizations.

6. Where we work • 120 Projects • 4 Regions • 12 Countries Examples of Projets: South African region

7. 4 CCRP Regions • Have some autonomy to organize their work • Each has a • GIS Support • Andean Region -> ArcGIS online • 3 African Regions -> Open Source • 3 African Regions – GIS support • West Africa and Southern Africa need direct support • Eastern Africa has a dedicated support team • Liaison Scientist • Research Methods Scientist • Regional CCRP Representative

8. GIS Support Project- Goals • Creating a viable and effective technological framework for spatial data storage, presentation and analysis unified data storage, data repositories, web maps, and desktop GIS tools • Building and supporting GIS capacity within the CCRP regions and across projects • Integrating GIS with the Research Methods (RM) team • Creating effective work processes for the use of spatial data in CCRPEasy access to relevant spatial data.

9. Components of GIS Support Project • Teaching GIS tools (Local Experts) • GIS Server Infrasctructure • GIS Data Work • Direct Support of Projects • GIS concept report • Needs and Opportunities

10. Approach to implement OS GIS • Implementation of a comprehensive Open Source (OS) based GIS Server Architecture • Creation of GIS data repositories and map templatesfor use by agricultural researchers on the desktop • Capacity building efforts among dedicated regional GIS teams in the use of Open Source Geospatial Tools.

11. Web GIS Architecture • Open Geo Suite • QGISExport

12. Web GIS Architecture • Geoserver based web maps • Soil map SW Kenya – Web viewer • Editing in GeoExplorer Composer

13. Other CCRP Web GIS Resources • Redmine – CCRP Project management • MapServer Project Locations Editing • Africa OSM viewer • OSM daily exports(spatialite)

14. Desktop GIS tools • QGIS • Templates • Case Studies

15. Approach to teach OS GIS Case studies

16. Data work / accessebility • Data set collection • OSM extraction -> web directory • Global, Regional , Country wide, Project data

17. Challenges • Communication • Global distribution of participants • Gaining and maintaining interest and momentum working with partners • Internet access, power outages

18. Conclusions • Open Source GIS Tools met the needs of the program QGIS, gdal/ogr, PostGIS, OpenLayers, Leaflet, GeoServer, MapServer, GeoClim, Homologue ... Open Street Map data

19. Conclusions • Training Local GIS Experts • Increased Data availability • Helped increase the efficiency of the research projects • Research site selection • Better defined goals and areas of spatial impact • Direct project support did the same

20. Future Activities • Training of Local GIS Experts publishing maps and data -> Web GIS • Continue work on increased data availability examples: • Daily, Pental, Decadal Climate Data (CHIRPS) • made available for project areas cut to areas of interest, formated as tif, summary and long term data, spatistical evaluation dry spells length of growing season • Continued direct project support

21. Thank you • Asante Sana !