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Crop and Rangeland Monitoring in West Africa, the AGRHYMET experience by

Crop and Rangeland Monitoring in West Africa, the AGRHYMET experience by Seydou B. TRAORE, agrometeorologist AGRHYMET Regional Centre, Niamey, Niger. Outline. Brief presentation of CILSS/AGRHYMET Monitoring and Early Warning Challenges Future prospects Partnerships. 2.

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  1. Crop and Rangeland Monitoring in West Africa, the AGRHYMET experience by Seydou B. TRAORE, agrometeorologist AGRHYMET Regional Centre, Niamey, Niger 3rd CRAM workshop, Nairobi, 26-30 September 2011

  2. Outline • Brief presentation of CILSS/AGRHYMET • Monitoring and Early Warning • Challenges • Future prospects • Partnerships 2

  3. Brief presentation of CILSS/AGRHYMET • CILSS: The Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel • Created in 1973 by the Heads of States of 9 Sahelian countries • Mandate: • Food security (drought risk management, poverty reduction) • Natural resources management , desertification control , water resources management, climate change adaptation • Main statutory institutional instances • Summit of the Heads of States /Governments every 2 year • Council of ministers, twice a year • Regional Programming and Monitoring Board, twice a year

  4. Brief presentation of CILSS/AGRHYMET • CILSS: 9 member countries • Cape Verde, Mauritania, Senegal, • The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mali, • Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad. • Headquartersin Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso • Policy development and support • 2 specialized institutions • INSAH : in Bamako, Mali • Coordinate agricultural research • AGRHYMET: in Niamey, Niger • Information and Training • Since December 2006, MoU with ECOWAS to extend activities to all West African Countries (food crisis and other natural disaster prevention and management, natural resources management, desertification control and population and development research

  5. AGRHYMET Data and Information Flow Data and Information Partners ANALYSIS DIFFUSION TRAINING Hydrology Meteorology Financial and Technical assistance Agriculture Animal Husbandry AGRHYMET Crop protection Hydrology DATA COLLECTION AND STORAGE Meteorology Agriculture Animal husbandry Countries Crop protection Satellite Data Ground Observations and Surveys Data

  6. Monitoring and Early Warning • Early Warning and Food Crisis Prevention • Seasonal rainfall forecast (PRESAO), • Monitoring the progress of sowing performance (Field data and Agrometeorological models), • Monitoring the locust situation (Rainfall maps + Vegetation Indices), • Yield forecasting (Agrometeorological models), • Identifying risk zones (Synthesis of all the products), • Joint pre-harvest assessment missions in the field, • Annual consultative meeting in Early November, • Targeting vulnerable populations.

  7. Monitoring and Early Warning Rainfall analysis : Ground measurements

  8. Monitoring and Early Warning Rainfall analysis: Satellite Estimation

  9. Monitoring and Early Warning Crop monitoring and yield forecasting (DHC model) Crop Water Requirement Satisfaction Index Sowing dates Yield forecasts

  10. Monitoring and Early Warning Vegetation indices

  11. Monitoring and Early Warning Vegetation indices (NGI) 31st July 2009 31st August 2009

  12. Monitoring and Early Warning Vegetation indices Moa Magaria

  13. Monitoring and Early Warning Vegetation indices / VGI profiles 2011 Dakoro / Niger Tillabéri / Niger

  14. Monitoring and Early Warning Synthesis maps 2009 2010

  15. Dissemination and Target audiences • Monthly and special bulletins • AGRHYMET Newsletter • Annual Report for the general public • Radio and TV programs in member countries • Internet (e-mail & Web portal: www.agrhymet.ne) • Etc.

  16. Dissemination and Target audiences Monthly Bulletins

  17. Dissemination and Target audiences Environmental Watch Bulletins

  18. Challenges / Future Prospects • Some challenges with Guinea coast countries (more humid climate) • Need to upgrade monitoring tools and methods to those zones • Cloud contamination of most vegetation monitoring products • Establishment of national networks of users (AMESD) • Capacity building at both regional and national levels (human resources, equipment) • Derivation of other climate data from RS (surface temperatures, solar radiation, PET, soil moisture, etc…) and use as inputs to crop models • AMESD / MESA, GMFS, etc…

  19. Some Partnerships • Technical • National technical services • Meteorology, hydrology, agric. statistics, crop protection, agric. research, environmental agencies, universities etc…. • Regional • River Basin Authorities, ACMAD, 2IE, CORAF/WECARD, ICRAF, • International • WMO, FAO, WFP, FEWSNET, USGS, IRI, CIRAD, FCS, Env. CANADA, IRD, JRC, VITO, EARS, ICRISAT, UNESCO, WASCAL, Universities (Africa, America, Europe) • Financial • EU, USAID, AfDB, BADEA, ECOWAS, France, Canada

  20. Thank you • for your attention 20

  21. Field Validation sNDVI MOA

  22. Field Validation sNDVI MAGARIA

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