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Elodie Becquey is a Senior Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in IFPRI’s West and Central Africa office in Senegal. She has over 15 years of research experience in diet, nutrition, and food security in Africa, including countries such as Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, and Tanzania.

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Statistics from Space: Next-Generation Agriculture Production Information for Enhanced Monitoring of Food Security in Mozambique – Groundtruthing data collection and stakeholder engagement report

2025Centre of Excellence in Agri-Food Systems and Nutrition
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Statistics from Space: Next-Generation Agriculture Production Information for Enhanced Monitoring of Food Security in Mozambique – Groundtruthing data collection and stakeholder engagement report

The Statistics from Space project (SFS) seeks to support the Government of Mozambique to produce and disseminate accurate crop production statistical data leveraging satellite remote-sensing data and artificial intelligence augmented analytics. The project, funded by the Government of the Republic of Korea (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs; MAFRA), aims to provide the Mozambican Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development with production estimates of major crops across three provinces namely Gaza, Manica and Zambezia in a sufficiently timely manner so that all market participants can use the information for decision-making. SFS is a three years project and has four main components: (1) Stakeholders engagement for impacts, led by International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); (2) Enhanced area sampling frame led by ITC/University of Twente; (3) Digital collection of groundtruthing data, led by Centre of Excellence in Agri-Food Systems and Nutrition (CE-AFSN) at Eduardo Mondlane University; and (4)Analytical framework, led by Seoul National University (SNU). This Report is part of component 3 of the SFS project and has an overall objective to depict all activities carried out during the data collection process in the several districts of Gaza, Manica and Zambezia provinces which are the target regions of the project. The report also includes the methodology approach used since the interaction and involvement of local stakeholders. At the last sections, the report includes the main findings from the data collection process, challenges and constraints, lessons learnt and the next steps.

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2025

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Centre of Excellence in Agri-Food Systems and Nutrition

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Centre of Excellence in Agri-Food Systems and Nutrition. 2025. Statistics from Space: Next-Generation Agriculture Production Information for Enhanced Monitoring of Food Security in Mozambique – Groundtruthing data collection and stakeholder engagement report. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178008

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Mozambique

Keywords

Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Southern Africa; Data Collection; Stakeholders; Training

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English

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Open Access

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Digital Innovation

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Application of an analytical framework to hindcast crop yield in major crop production regions in Mozambique

2025Kim, Kwang Soo; Hyun, Shinwoo; Lee, Seok Ho
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Application of an analytical framework to hindcast crop yield in major crop production regions in Mozambique

Mozambique faces challenges in staple food crop production, which makes crop yield prediction vital for effective policy-making on food security. The analytic framework that integrates satellite data and crop growth simulations to forecast regional crop yield can aid policy makers. The objectives of this study were to apply the analytic framework to three major crop production regions in Mozambique including Gaza, Manica, and Nampula provinces for maize, soybean, and rice. The gridded crop growth simulations were performed using Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer (DSSAT). A set of crop management scenarios were applied to the crop growth simulations. One of these simulations were identified to obtain crop yield hindcasts by cell comparing leaf area index data derived from the simulations and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite data. Crop yield hindcasts were obtained using a percentile of crop yield distribution using three preceding growing seasons. It was found that the percentile used for crop yield hindcasts differed by crop and province. The accuracy of maize and soybean yield hindcasts was within an acceptable range, e.g., < 20% of crop yield in growing seasons, whereas that of rice yield hindcasts was considerably high. Crop yield predictions were limited by the use of crop management scenarios such as cultivars and fertilizer application. Despite biases and limitations in representing real farming conditions, the framework provided insights into improving staple food crop production. It was also highlighted that detailed knowledge on crop management practices such as cultivar and fertilizer applications would improve the reliability of the analytic framework to predict crop yield in the major production regions in Mozambique.

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2025

Authors

Kim, Kwang Soo; Hyun, Shinwoo; Lee, Seok Ho

Citation

Kim, Kwang Soo; Hyun, Shinwoo; and Lee, Seok Ho. 2025. Application of an analytical framework to hindcast crop yield in major crop production regions in Mozambique. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178003

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Mozambique

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Africa; Sub-saharan Africa; Southern Africa; Frameworks; Crop Yield; Farmland; Crop Production; Models; Decision-support Systems; Forecasting; Food Security

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English

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Open Access

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Digital Innovation

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Building a climate change-resilient food system in Korea: The case of extension and technology dissemination services

2019Won, Jieun; Babu, Suresh Chandra; Rana, Akriti
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Building a climate change-resilient food system in Korea: The case of extension and technology dissemination services

Climate change affects various stages of the food system including production, processing, distribution, and consumption. To cope with this vulnerability, many nations have engaged in a global movement to establish strategies aimed at food security. As in other countries, in the Republic of Korea climate change has had, and will continue to have, a significant influence on the food system, creating many uncertainties. In response, the Korean government and relevant agencies under national strategies have implemented various policy measures and programs to respond to the effects of climate change and strengthen the country’s food resiliency. In this paper we examine those strategies, measures, and specific programs, and in particular those that involve agricultural extension and technology dissemination. These various sector-specific or cross-sector strategies have not only counteracted climate change impacts but also improved the incomes of farming households, who have struggled with import competition and low profitability under Korea’s generally slowing economy. The Korean government has also implemented extension and tech dissemination projects in and with developing countries with the aim of building resilient food systems in the era of climate change. We find that such programs would benefit from the formation and maintenance of international networks, and moreover, each international program must be preceded by a thorough needs assessment that takes into account the regional context and each project should promote appropriate technologies-that is, technologies customized or particularly suited to the local context.

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2019

Authors

Won, Jieun; Babu, Suresh Chandra; Rana, Akriti

Citation

Won, Jieun; Babu, Suresh Chandra; and Rana, Akriti. 2019. Building a climate change-resilient food system in Korea: The case of extension and technology dissemination services. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1861. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/146512

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Korea, Republic of

Keywords

Asia; Eastern Asia; Advisory Services; Agricultural Extension; Technology Transfer; Extension Activities; Extension Systems; Capacity Development; Smallholders; Information and Communication Technologies; Resilience; Food Systems; Climate-smart Agriculture; Climate Change

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English

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Open Access

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Policies, Institutions, and Markets

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Working Paper