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Guidelines on the use of available remote sensing tools, products, methodologies and data to improve agricultural crop production forecast statistics in sub-saharan African countries
This report provides guidelines and a framework for developing multistage crop forecasting systems built on existing national institutions, but also leveraging on new technical advancements in a sustainable manner.
Publications, Technical Reports & Working Papers
Leveraging crowdsourcing techniques and technologies to generate better agricultural information: three case studies, in Indonesia, Nigeria and the Philippines
In this paper, overviews of the three pilots are given, with discussions on the methodologies, results and lessons learned related to these endeavours.
Guidelines & Handbooks, Publications
Recent Practices and Advances for AMIS Crop Yield Forecasting at Farm and Parcel Level: A Review
In most countries, although the proportion of national GDP constituted by the agricultural sector has been declining for decades, the forecasting of food production remains a major challenge for all the economic actors of modern societies.
Publications, Technical Reports & Working Papers
Use of Artificial intelligence and web scraping methods to retrieve information from the World Wide Web
This article investigates the possibility of structuring data from different websites through web scraping techniques.
Guidelines & Handbooks, Publications
Review of the available remote sensing tools, products, methodologies and data to improve crop production forecasts
This review examines the current status of the remote sensing (RS) tools, products, methodologies and data that can help to improve agricultural crop production forecasting systems.
Publications
Building Agricultural Market Information Systems: A Literature Review (AMIS)
Market information can play an extremely important role in promoting agricultural development, especially among small-scale producers.
Guidelines & Handbooks, Publications
Guidelines for designing and implementing grain stock surveys (AMIS)
These Guidelines have been prepared on the basis of assessments of the methods currently used by countries to produce data on stocks, and seek to help countries design and implement both on-farm and off-farm stocks.
Publications
Crop Yield Forecasting: Methodological and Institutional Aspects
This publication, prepared in the context of the AMIS Initiative, provides insights into the complexity of the crop yield forecasting system at country level whilst highlighting good practices and prospects for the future.