[Geo4All] Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote Sensing & Optimal Production

Sat Nov 25 17:16:10 PST 2017

Daniel, Beautiful!

First we need to work on connecting with the farmer/rancher. If there is high-tech solution to track, let's put it on the lead cow. Do you use dogs to help corral your cattle, probably not, but worth considering? Though maybe so alien, might scare the hell out of your herd.

We need to establish a regular connect with the farmer/rancher. I am assuming cell-phones are a native part of this equation. Getting them weather data is a start. Finding ways to connect the local community is implicit in this.

Once we know what the current 'e' infrastructure exists there, it will be easier to design the requirements for the app we want to develop, serving their immediate needs, with UTL at the heart of that.

Some thoughts. . .

-Patrick

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From: Dan Bwanika [mailto:bulemezi at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2017 4:39 PM
To: Mueller, Thomas; cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu; Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: Charlie Martial NGOUNOU; BISA-IPEG; ACUMEN; GeoForAll; Urban Geography Discussion and Announcement Forum
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote Sensing & Optimal Production

Prof. Schweik, Anand, Patrick, Mueller and Charlie

In Uganda, there are spaces of trying out these projects with very
good returns.   For instance organic beef and agroproduce export is
gaining pace. Companies from Norway, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Belgium, Middle East and China are all on the ground.

What I do think,  is how to build a one Fab Lab that will do multiple tasks i.e. product development and data gathering (for bot urban and Rural planning) to reduce costs for; Students, Researchers and then Business (farmers ) community.

It is essential to involve the business community to bring in requisite funding however small for project sustenance.

Can the Fab Lab also distribute this data to rural farmers?

Now, the crux of the matter is to have rural portable devices developed that can resist high temp, wet conditions (it rains a lot in
Uganda) that can receive but also SEND DATA TO THE FAB LAB.

There is a possibility of getting Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL) and NITA Uganda that have a wider communication infrastructure network to join the project.

Is it possible to have a virtual market for rural farmers and the buyers in urban centres? If yes the portal can bring in a few Uganda shilling to cover running costs?

For research purposes, this is indeed a fertile ground to get to discover quite a number of key issues.

For example; spatial data on good grass, plant (seasons) and animal diseases (early detection), water sources, animal grazing behavior in different season, soil data,  growth pattern in different vegetation environments etc etc.,

Once the data is put into a temperate and categorised – and the Uganda farmer given some basic farming education then you can have research institutions link up to the Fab Lab for remote research since it links up the market, farmers in rural areas and researchers in the field and outside the field.

Best

Daniel Bwanika

On 11/26/17, Dan Bwanika <bulemezi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dr. Mueller
>
> Have a look at these short I did in 2013
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> Best
>
> Daniel Bwanika
>
> On 11/25/17, Mueller, Thomas <Mueller at calu.edu> wrote:
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> This is so cool.  I am going to discuss your project in my World 
>> Regional Geography class.  Do you have any images, videos, etc.?
>>
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
>> Tom
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>> Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote 
>> Sensing & Optimal Production
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>> Hi Daniel
>>
>> I like what you say here.
>> Problems you observe in Uganda are similar to what we have in Central 
>> Africa.
>> We need to leverage Geo tools to cartography everything in our 
>> countries, because it is very difficult to locate anything here.
>>
>> Thank you !
>>
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>> Best Regards
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>> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Dan Bwanika 
>> <bulemezi at gmail.com<mailto:bulemezi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Dear Forum
>>
>> Recently, I was in the northern central part of Uganda where cattle 
>> keepers have farms in the region of 300 -600 acres. It took me three 
>> hours to locate where the cows had grazed that day.
>>
>> Then I thought to myself, maybe if each cattle had a GPS/GSM tag, I 
>> would locate the cows in a few minutes instead of walking in an 
>> endless bush. Even then do these people need such huge land for 
>> cattle keeping if they had good aerial data on vegetation, water etc.,?
>>
>> Uganda key socioeconomic activity is still agriculture and it will 
>> remain the same for some time to come. Uganda if you look closely at 
>> the map is endowed with huge water resources.
>>
>> For the above reason, this country will need huge cartographical data 
>> on soil profiles, vegetation, crops, water sources, animal husbandry 
>> etc.
>>
>> That is how technology is converging on Africa in a massive way.
>>
>> Can we work together on this – get in touch.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Daniel Bwanika
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