The Brussels Development Briefing n. 56 on The Land-Water-Energy nexus and the Sustainability of the Food System organised by CTA, the European Commission/EuropeAid, the ACP Secretariat and Concord was held on 3rd of July 2019, 9h00-13h00 at the ACP Secretariat, Avenue Georges Henri 451, 1200 Brussels, Room C.

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Space for Food Security
Use of more efficient
inputs through use of
satellite data
Ruud Grim
Brussels Development Briefings
3 July 2019 (Brussels)

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• Space agency of the Netherlands government
(established 2009)
• Reporting to:
Ministry of Economic Affairs & Climate
Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
• Task: to develop and implement Netherlands Space
programme
• Outcome: space applications for science, economy and
society

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Netherlands Space Office
Open and free satellite data

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Netherlands Space Office
Copernicus for food security
Sentinel-1 Sentinel-2
Sentinel-3

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EO for agriculture
• Public services:
e.g. GEOGLAM CropMonitor,
EC-JRC, FAO, WFP (free)
• Added value services:
specific, client defined
themes, targeted validation
(paid)
 commercial farmers
 smallholder farmers

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500 million smallholder food producers

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Satellite and ICT provide scaling: big opportunity
Major (technology) enablers
Satellite and other
sensor systems
Operational
infrastructure
Distribution
channels
Value adding
& knowledge
engines
Food
producers

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Geodata for Agriculture and Water (G4AW) improves food
security in developing countries by using satellite data.
Netherlands Space Office (NSO) is executing this programme,
commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
• 4,5 mio farmers
• 60 (+30) mio €
• 2014-2021
• 23 projects
• 14 countries

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Services:
Drought insurance
Channels:
Insurance companies
Coordinated by AIC
Target (start): 100,000
Reached (2018): 75,000
Target (2019): 150,000
Sum-Africa (Uganda)
2019:
Offered as B2C
commercial service
to farmers

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Services:
Routing of herds
(avoiding agri zones)
Market information
Channels:
Call center
Target (start): 75,000
Reached (2018): 57,000
Target (2019): 75,000
STAMP (Mali)
2019:
Continued / scale
up in STAMP+

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Geodata for
Innovative
Agricultural Credit
Insurance Schemes
(GIACIS) Ethiopia
Target (start): 1,600,000
Reached (2018): 2,000,000
Target ATA: 15,000,000
GIACIS (Ethiopia)
Services:
Vegetative Index Crop
Insurance (VICI)
Weather information
(under development)
Channels:
VICI: Direct purchase
via insurance
companies and/or
government program
Weather info: SMS
2019:
Waiting for
approval by ATA
for scale up

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Target: 100,000 farmers
Services:
Weather information
Agri advisory
(planting, spraying)
Channels:
Android App
USSD
Extension officers
“Resellers”
In 11 languages
R4A (South Africa)
2019:
Transition from
project to
‘business’

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Target: 350,000 farmers
Services:
Weather information
Agri advisory
Insurance
Channels:
Agents
“Resellers”
In 11 languages
MUIIS (Uganda)
2019:
Transition from
project to
‘business’
Results:
>2 million people
reached
>150,000 farmer
profiles
- Service subscription
is low
Next:
Focus on B2B
Supporting donor
funding

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Example of M&E reportingMUIIS (Uganda)

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Services in G4AW: scale up / replicate?
• More localized weather forecasts
• Yield forecasts / growth stages
• Pest & disease warnings
• Drought and flood warnings
• Micro insurance
• Risk profiling supporting insurance and credits

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Want to learn more about G4AW?
Website: https://g4aw.spaceoffice.nl/en/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8509495
Publications: https://g4aw.spaceoffice.nl/en/about-g4aw/publications/
- Lessons learned first G4AW calls and project progress (Feb. 2017)
- Geodata for Inclusive Finance and Food (NpM reports 2017, 2018)
- “Digitalization of African Agriculture” (CTA/Dalberg report 21 June 2019)
Videos: https://g4aw.spaceoffice.nl/en/projects/g4aw-project-videos/
Leaflets: https://g4aw.spaceoffice.nl/en/projects/g4aw-project-leaflets/
Apps: https://g4aw.spaceoffice.nl/en/projects/g4aw-mobile-apps/

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Questions?

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Thank you for
your attention
Contact: g4aw@spaceoffice.nl
G4AW is a programme
commissioned by

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Additional slides

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G4AW overall insights
• PPP cooperation helpful, but…
• Business owner & model crucial
• Services comply with user needs:
towards bundling of services
• G4AW provides “seed funding”
• First projects into service delivery
phase (B2B, B2C)

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Information services for vegetable farmers
(SmartSeeds), Indonesia
Target: 100,000 farmersSMARTseeds (Indonesia)

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IDSS (Bangladesh)
Target (start): 967,675
Reached (2017): 295,000
Target (2019): unknown
Services:
Rice growth stages
Pests & diseases
Weather information
Agri-advisory
information
Channels:
Extension officer
Computer/tablet
Smart phone
2019:
Decision by ACI
for follow on
& scale up

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Locations:
Rangpur &
Munshigansj
Services, a.o. :
Night Blind alerts
Spray advice
Red = urban
Orange = potato
Green = other veg.
Geodata to control potato late blight
in Bangladesh
(GEOPOTATO)
Bangladesh
Target: 100,000 farmers

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Services:
Weather information
Pests & diseases
GAP information
Market information
Channels:
Extension officer
Computer/tablet
Smart phone
Myanmar Mobile Value
Added Services for
Agriculture (MYVAS4AGRI),
Myanmar
Target (start): 850,000
Reached (2018): >55,000
Target (2019): unknown
Myvas4Agri (Myanmar)

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Services:
Weather information
Agronomic advices
Market information
Credit provision
Channels:
Extension officer
Computer/tablet
Smart phone
Facebook
Target (start): 567,500
Reached (2018): unknown
Target (2019): unknown
SAM (Myanmar)

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Satellite data for Rice
(Sat4Rice) Vietnam
Services:
Rice growth stages
Pests & diseases
Agri-advisory
information
Channels:
Extension officer
Computer/tablet
Smart phone
Target (start): 300,000
Reached (2018): 152,000
Target (2019): unknown
2019:
Waiting for decision
by Loc Troi
for scale up
Sat4Rice (Vietnam)

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Central Highlands
Vietnam
GREENcoffee (Vietnam)
Services:
Weather information
Pests & diseases
GAP information
Market information
Available: Oct. ‘17
Channels:
Extension officer
Computer/tablet
Smart Phone
Text Messaging
100,000 farmers

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Geodata for Innovative Agricultural Credit
Insurance Schemes (GIACIS) Ethiopia
Target: 1,600,000 farmers

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Geodata for Inclusive Finance & Food (G4IFF)
G4IFF is coordinated by Dutch Platform for Inclusive Finance.
Improve
access to
finance for the
rural target
groups

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Time to scale
reaching
800 million
smallholders

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Netherlands Space Office
 Space agency of the Netherlands government
(established 2009)
 Reporting to:
 Ministry of Economic Affairs & Climate
 Ministry of Infrastructure and Waterworks
 Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs
 Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
 Task: to develop and implement Netherlands Space
programme
 Outcome: space applications for science, economy and
society