Early Warning System for Monitoring Nutrition and Livestock Health for Food Security of Humans in Ea

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Global 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
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• 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.

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Tools

• PHYGROW Forage production model
• Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) Fecal
  Profiling for Livestock
• NutBal Pro Livestock Nutrition Model
• Almanac Characterization Tool Spatial
  Characterization and GIS

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Partners

• 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

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GISD-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

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Linking 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

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LEWS Household Internet-Based Reports
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Co-kriging Results Southern Kenya
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Regional Forage Production Maps Using Kriged
Model Outputs
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Accelerating 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

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Fostering 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

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Analytical 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
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Capacity 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