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Innovative, game-changing monitoring system for Africa
Feedstuffs.com reports that, in a bid to increase food security and decrease environmental degradation, scientists have created the Africa Monitoring System (AMS), an initiative that will be co-led by Arlington, Virginia based Conservation International (CI), South Africa's Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) and Columbia University's Earth Institute (EI).
This follows the announcement in Rome, of a ground-breaking grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The developers describe the new system as an innovative and potentially game-changing tracking and diagnostic system for policy and decision-makers that will help to holistically monitor agricultural productivity, ecosystem health, and human well-being measures in African landscapes with near real-time data, and better understand the opportunities and trade-offs of increased agricultural production.
The three-year US$10 million grant investment, will be managed by Conservation International and lays the foundation for a new, integrated monitoring system in five regions of Sub-Saharan Africa where agricultural intensification is targeted to meet the needs of Africa's growing population, including Tanzania, Ghana, Ethiopia, and two countries to be determined.
Read the full article on www.feedstuffs.com.
