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

Sat Nov 25 20:25:31 PST 2017

Daniel,

It's your lead, given you are defining the design and the requirements. 

So what does that basic ^herder^ app look like? Though truth be told, as I mentioned earlier, we can be more help to farmers than herders. 

Weare simply not ^there^ yet for rounding up cattle via IoT. 

Meanwhile, we need a good target for what we can do,
so that together we might build a primo app in concert with your crew.

-Patrick

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Bwanika [mailto:bulemezi at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2017 8:17 PM
To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
Cc: Mueller, Thomas; cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu; Charlie Martial NGOUNOU; BISA-IPEG; ACUMEN; GeoForAll
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote Sensing & Optimal Production

Pat

I am ready to go.
We have the whole world for us.

Best

Dan

On 11/26/17, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov> wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> WoW!
>
> That is some rich grass for those goats to graze on!
>
> I would love to drink their milk!
>
> It's easy enough for those goats to disappear in the tall grass, much 
> more the 100 acres.
>
> Let's start small, but let's get something 'soft' going!
>
> -Patrick
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Bwanika [mailto:bulemezi at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2017 5:43 PM
> To: Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
> Cc: Mueller, Thomas; cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu; Charlie Martial 
> NGOUNOU; BISA-IPEG; ACUMEN; GeoForAll; Urban Geography Discussion and 
> Announcement Forum
> Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote Sensing 
> & Optimal Production
>
> Patrick
>
> Sure this will have to be done soon or later. The choice for these 
> farmers is to live and to live they have to sustain life with modern 
> tools and systems.
>
> It is indeed this very concept we are trying to bring to the table "RANCHER"
> since Uganda and indeed East Africa farming practices are so archaic 
> to be termed farming at all.
>
> A farmer has 300 acres and over 100 cows just roaming the entire place 
> left to nature’s fate. Miraculously this has been going far way too 
> long and is not sustainable!  Climate change and market demand (rapid
> urbanisation) can wipe out their stocks.
>
> Dogs, yes no, just to chase away small canines - not really  to  help 
> corral cattle.
>
> In fact, remote sensing technology can help in CATTLE FARM MANAGEMENT 
> particularly for milk producers. E.G. with a smart phone locatin the 
> precise location of each cow.
>
> It is very costly for Uganda cattle farmers to milk more than 100 cows 
> in the wild.
>
> Training is also central to switch perspective.
>
> Mobile phones are everywhere in this country - we just have to change use.
>
> see photo of a goats farmer
>
> Best
>
> Daniel Bwanika
>
> On 11/26/17, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <patrick.hogan at nasa.gov> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 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
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ________________________________
>>>> From: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of 
>>>> Charlie Martial NGOUNOU <cmngounou at gmail.com>
>>>> Sent: Saturday, November 25, 2017 4:00:53 AM
>>>> To: Dan Bwanika
>>>> Cc: BISA-IPEG; ACUMEN; GeoForAll; Urban Geography Discussion and 
>>>> Announcement Forum
>>>> Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote 
>>>> Sensing & Optimal Production
>>>>
>>>> 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 !
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>>> Charlie Martial NGOUNOU, Founder
>>>> AfroLeadership, Promoting Data Revolution in Africa Tel. 00237 
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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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>>>> Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero
>>>>
>>>> Daniel Bwanika
>>>> Box 12413 Kampala
>>>> Uganda
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>>> --
>>> _____________________________
>>> Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero
>>>
>>> Daniel Bwanika
>>> Box 12413 Kampala
>>> Uganda
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>>
>>
>> --
>> _____________________________
>> Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero
>>
>> Daniel Bwanika
>> Box 12413 Kampala
>> Uganda
>>
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>
>
> --
> _____________________________
> Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero
>
> Daniel Bwanika
> Box 12413 Kampala
> Uganda
>
> t: +256-752-972-960
> f: facebook.com/uidc.uganda
> www.uidc-ea.org
> e: uidcug at gmail.com
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>

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_____________________________
Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero

Daniel Bwanika
Box 12413 Kampala
Uganda

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