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.
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