Smart-ICT for weather and water information and advice to smallholders in Africa
Climate change, water scarcity and food security are becoming increasingly important topics for the growing population of Africa. Due to a general lack of water resources in semi-arid and arid zones, water is an increasingly scarce input in agriculture. The impact of climate change exacerbates this...
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| author | Amarnath, Giriraj Simons, G. Sharma, Bharat R. Mohammed, Y. Gismalla, Y. Smakhtin, Vladimir U. |
| author_browse | Amarnath, Giriraj Gismalla, Y. Mohammed, Y. Sharma, Bharat R. Simons, G. Smakhtin, Vladimir U. |
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| description | Climate change, water scarcity and food security are becoming increasingly important topics for the growing population of Africa. Due to a general lack of water resources in semi-arid and arid zones, water is an increasingly scarce input in agriculture. The impact of climate change exacerbates this situation further. Even in areas with abundant water resources, optimal use is hampered by insufficient infrastructure to capture these resources and knowledge on appropriate use. With the increased demand and competition for limited water resources the challenge is to increase agricultural production while reducing water consumption ("more crop per drop"). Solutions must be found to enable rural people to overcome poverty, and a start can be made by assisting in food production and water management to combat food insecurity. Local solutions must be adopted in which rural people's access to new technologies increases. Therefore, smart and affordable technologies need to be adapted to customize farm management for this group of African farmers. Poor farmers need to access real-time information, be able to exchange and apply it: smart ICT (e.g. cell-phones backed up by the web) can play a fundamental role in the communication process. |
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| spelling | CGSpace383702023-09-25T09:16:55Z Smart-ICT for weather and water information and advice to smallholders in Africa Amarnath, Giriraj Simons, G. Sharma, Bharat R. Mohammed, Y. Gismalla, Y. Smakhtin, Vladimir U. information and communication technologies (icts) weather smallholders farmers water resources spate-irrigation flooding mapping rivers catchment areas satellite surveys satellite imagery evapotranspiration crops biomass Climate change, water scarcity and food security are becoming increasingly important topics for the growing population of Africa. Due to a general lack of water resources in semi-arid and arid zones, water is an increasingly scarce input in agriculture. The impact of climate change exacerbates this situation further. Even in areas with abundant water resources, optimal use is hampered by insufficient infrastructure to capture these resources and knowledge on appropriate use. With the increased demand and competition for limited water resources the challenge is to increase agricultural production while reducing water consumption ("more crop per drop"). Solutions must be found to enable rural people to overcome poverty, and a start can be made by assisting in food production and water management to combat food insecurity. Local solutions must be adopted in which rural people's access to new technologies increases. Therefore, smart and affordable technologies need to be adapted to customize farm management for this group of African farmers. Poor farmers need to access real-time information, be able to exchange and apply it: smart ICT (e.g. cell-phones backed up by the web) can play a fundamental role in the communication process. 2013 2014-06-13T11:41:32Z 2014-06-13T11:41:32Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/38370 en Limited Access Amarnath, Giriraj; Simons, G.; Sharma, Bharat; Mohammed, Y.; Gismalla, Y.; Smakhtin, Vladimir. 2013. Smart-ICT for weather and water information and advice to smallholders in Africa. In UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. Conference on New Nile Perspectives Scientific Advances in the eastern Nile Basin, Khartoum, Sudan 6-8 May 2013. Advance copy of extended abstracts. Delft, Netherlands: UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. pp.117-125. |
| spellingShingle | information and communication technologies (icts) weather smallholders farmers water resources spate-irrigation flooding mapping rivers catchment areas satellite surveys satellite imagery evapotranspiration crops biomass Amarnath, Giriraj Simons, G. Sharma, Bharat R. Mohammed, Y. Gismalla, Y. Smakhtin, Vladimir U. Smart-ICT for weather and water information and advice to smallholders in Africa |
| title | Smart-ICT for weather and water information and advice to smallholders in Africa |
| title_full | Smart-ICT for weather and water information and advice to smallholders in Africa |
| title_fullStr | Smart-ICT for weather and water information and advice to smallholders in Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Smart-ICT for weather and water information and advice to smallholders in Africa |
| title_short | Smart-ICT for weather and water information and advice to smallholders in Africa |
| title_sort | smart ict for weather and water information and advice to smallholders in africa |
| topic | information and communication technologies (icts) weather smallholders farmers water resources spate-irrigation flooding mapping rivers catchment areas satellite surveys satellite imagery evapotranspiration crops biomass |
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