Title: Early Warning System for Monitoring Nutrition and Livestock Health for Food Security of Humans in Ea
1Global Livestock CRSP
Early Warning System for Monitoring Nutrition and
Livestock Health for Food Security of Humans in
East Africa.
..blending monitoring/modeling and spatial
technologies to improve food security of
pastoral communities in East Africa
Lead InstitutionTexas AM University System
2- Livestock Early Warning System Objectives
- Linking new technologies to create a system that
has the ability to detect changes in livestock
forage and nutritional status over large
landscapes. - To develop a network of collaborators to
implement a full-scale livestock early warning
system in order to more effectively respond to
climatic conditions that influence livestock
production in East Africa.
3Tools
- PHYGROW Forage production model
- Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Fecal
Profiling for Livestock - NutBal Pro Livestock Nutrition Model
- Almanac Characterization Tool Spatial
Characterization and GIS
4Partners
- Association for Strengthening Agricultural
Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) - International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
- Inter Governmental Authority for Development
(IGAD) - Drought Monitoring Center (DMC)
- Regional Center for Mapping Resource Developments
(RCMRD) - Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI)
- Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization
(EARO) - Tanzania Ministry of Water Development and
Livestock
5GISD-WSSD Workplan
- Four Major Components
- Linking Zones in Regional Spatial Analysis
- Accelerating Fecal Monitoring System
- Fostering Multiple Scale Communications to
Decision Makers - Capacity Building in DMC and RCMRD
6Linking Zones in Regional Spatial Analysis
- Increase the number of monitoring points in Kenya
to provide a more robust statistical analysis - Points will be added between Northern
Kenya/Southern Ethiopia and Southern
Kenya/Northern Tanzania
7LEWS Household Internet-Based Reports
8Co-kriging Results Southern Kenya
9Regional Forage Production Maps Using Kriged
Model Outputs
10Accelerating Fecal Monitoring System
- Improve sampling protocol
- Stabilize the personnel/transport infrastructure
in each of the two zones in Kenya - Improve rapid turn around time on collection of
feces, prediction of diets and running the
regional analysis for NUTBAL PRO
11Fostering Multiple Scale Communications to
Decision Makers
- Establishment of WorldSpace Satellite Radio
linked to computers in key ministry offices, DMC
and NGOs - Community outreach to pastoralists
12Analytical Communication Infrastructure
Development in Collaboration with
ASARECA, FAO-WAICENT, Global Livestock CRSP and
WorldSpace Foundation
Meteosat 7 Infrared Data
Pathfinder AVHRR
AfriStar/AsiaStar Satellites
Monitoring Entity
Zone Coordinators
WorldSpace Receiver/PC
NASA Goddard NDVI
NOAA Climate Prediction Center RFE Weather Server
TAMU CNRIT Server Analysis Portal
ILRIASARECA CMO Server
FAO WAICENT Servers
WorldSpace Foundation Server
USGS/EROS FEWS NET
13Capacity Building in DMC and RCMRD
- Training staff in the application of
geostatistical techniques for interpolation of
model output - Training in information delivery and pastoral
communication