Beneficiaries Share Their Experience on Using Geodata Innovations in Field Schools in Egypt

The project ‘A Practical Farmers Toolkit – Geodata for climate smart agriculture in Egypt’ has successfully finished in January 2022. An exciting video was made, which gives a short overview of this agricultural project.

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An interactive training programme started in April 2021 with online training, field schools, and group projects. The ‘toolkit’ provided in this project consists of several geodata innovative tools: flying sensors, satellite-derived irrigation advisory services, open-access water productivity data from WaPOR, and climate impact assessment. Together with consortium partners, IrriWatch, Delphy , HiView , and Prof. Ashraf Ghanem from Cairo University, this training program was provided to beneficiary partners (extension officers and agricultural consultants): Tamkeen, BioOasis, FAODA, LEPACHA, and IDAM. A true highlight of this project was running field schools at five locations, which were used to gain practical experience in using geodata tools for day-to-day farm decision-making.

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Watch this project video to get an overview of the project and hear about participants sharing their experiences from the field schools and the overall project. Downloadable one-pagers give a short summary of different success stories from the field, using the geodata tools: grounded ‘flying’ sensors, WaPOR apps, and IrriWatch advisory services.

Links to downloadable one-pagers:

• Grounded “flying” sensors – Near-infrared cameras for vegetation status monitoring. Download here.

• IrriWatch irrigation advisory – Applications for irrigation and farm management. Download here.

• WaPOR open access data – Data portal and smartphone apps for improved farm management. Download here.

The project video: