Glenn Hyman from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) describes that organisation’s experiences with sentinel site selection, long-term trial sites, and data management. This presentation formed part of the CRP6 Sentinel Landscape planning workshop held on 30 September – 1 October 2011 at CIFOR’s headquarters in Bogor, Indonesia. Further information on CRP6 and Sentinel Landscapes can be accessed from http://www.cifor.org/crp6/ and http://www.cifor.org/fileadmin/subsites/crp/CRP6-Sentinel-Landscape-workplan_2011-2014.pdf respectively.

1. Sites & Landscapes
Glenn Hyman
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
(CIAT)

2. Ecuador Colombia Planned road linking
Brazil and Peru
Brazil Brazil
PERU
Road to Lima

4. Using space as a proxy for time
Poverty Indices From 1993/1994 Population and
Agricultural Census of Peru
Household Index
65
Education Index
Index Number
60
Well-being Index
55
50 Rural Household Index
45 Basic Needs Index
40
35
30
0 10 20 30 40 50
Years Since Forest Clearing

5. Where we work
CCAFS

6. Regional selection: WA, EA, IGP
• Represent areas that are becoming both drier and
wetter
• Areas that will generate results that can be applied
and adapted in other regions worldwide
• Poverty and vulnerability
• Complementary set of social, cultural and institutional
contexts
• Complementary climatic contexts
• Significant but contrasting climate-related problems
and opportunities for interventions
• Security, governance, institutional capacity that favour
likelihood of generating transferable results

7. Principles of site selection
• Must build on partnerships with a
range of actors already working in
these areas
• Should build on existing structures,
institutions, projects and programs
(not start from scratch)

9. East
Africa
Kenya Nyando
Kenya Machakos
Uganda Albertine
Uganda Kagera
Tanzania Usambara
Ethiopia Borana

10. West Africa

11. Indo-
Gangetic
Plains

12. How many sites?
• So far, 31 sites
• They are doing baseline surveys at each site

13. Trial Sites: CCAFS, GCP

14. Links to national programs, long term trial sites:
Central Peruvian Amazon station of
Instituto Nacional de Innovacion Agraria (INIA)

15. Agricultural technology
evaluation:
Trial metadatabase
and file repository
Glenn Hyman, Andy Farrow,
Herlin Espinoza, Ernesto Giron,
Andy Jarvis, Jagath Kularatne (CIAT)
2011 General Research Meeting
Hyderabad, India
24 September 2011 http://agtrials.org/

16. Web interface
Relational database

17. Trial sites and trials

18. Document files
on trial site

19. Upload soil information:
• descriptions
• soil maps
• data

20. Weather during the trial

21. Photographs of the trial site

22. You specify who can access the data

23. Summary: Intellectual Property Rights
• Only registered and authenticated
users can upload or download any
data
• You establish the type of license to
use the data, which can only be
downloaded if user agrees to license
• You specify who can download
• You control your data

24. Users can enter the traits or variables
measured in the trial here.
Source: GCP’s www.cropontology.org

25. Integration with GCP Crop Ontology

26. Agtrials.org is growing: evaluation data

27. Final remarks
• Do we nearly fully rely on existing sites?
Security issue….
• Number of sites (Columbia U. experience?)
• Link with other CRPs
• Combine drivers of land use change with
position on forest transition curve
• GeoEye imagery

28. Thank you for your attention
Q&A