Research for Development

Some components of Spatial Support

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• Spatial Targeting
• Value Chain
• Disease mapping
• Services
• Trends

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Spatial
• A multi-criteria GIS site
Targeting selection for sustainable
cocoa development in
West Africa

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• World Cocoaarea
Production
production
covers Central
America to South
America from the
western Pacific coast
to the Brazilian
• West Africa –Guinea
to Cameroon except
Benin
• Asia –Indonesia and
Malaysia
• From 1960, World
cocoa production has
increased, from 1.2 to
3.6 million tons

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 West Africa Cocoa production

• ~ 70% of World Cocoa

produced in West Africa
• The region has
increased production to
meet rise in demand
• Côte d’Ivoire is the
leading producer despite
the political crisis
• American and Asian
regions have been
experiencing relative
stagnation

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 World Cocoa Export

• Cocoa is mainly
produced in
developing
countries
• Consumed
essentially in
industrialized
countries
• Chocolate and
confectionaries
industry are the
main users
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 Goals of the GIS component

• To employ spatial multi-criteria approach in

decision making
• To identify area that has potential for
intensification while avoiding deforestation
• To identify area that has potential for impact on
cocoa household income
• To identify priority areas by national policy and
cocoa industry partners investment
• To identify suitable cocoa growing communities
for intervention projects

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 Cocoa Land suitability

• Climatic and soil

suitability for
Cocoa in Nigeria
• This suggests
that Cocoa
cultivation can
expand into more
states than
where it is
currently being
grown

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 Cocoa Socio economic environment
Cocoa production
is high in
Ondo,Ogun,
Osun & Cross
River and low in
Oyo, Taraba and
Adamawa states

Food farm size

indicates
potential for food
security in cocoa
producing areas
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 Demographic and infrastructural conditions in
Cocoa growing area
High population
density
indicates high
labour potential
but also suggests
negative
land availability for
cocoa farm
expansion

Well organised
farmer adopts
technology more
easily and
has high economic
impact
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 Suitable LGA selected areas
Result of
combining all
criteria,
biophysical,
socio-economic,
demographic
and national
policy

Final selected
area
after forest
reserve
area were
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 Unleashing the Power of Cassava in Africa (UPOCA)

UPOCA aims to deploy improved

technologies/varieties to maximize production,
commercialization, value addition and utilization
of cassava in 7 Africa Countries

Ghana

Malawi

Sierra Leone

Nigeria

Tanzania

DRC

Mozambique

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Sierra Leone –five new
cassava processing
centers established

Nigeria -High Quality

Cassava Flour
producers and end
users

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Disease
Monitoring
Distribution of Pathogens
in Republic of Benin
Zambia, Malawi and
Mozambique, Nigeria

Prevalence

Changes over time

New reports of disease

DEWN

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Training • Federal Ministry of Agriculture (2 months)

GIS • Institute of Agriculture Research (IAR)

GPS • Yam research technicians from Cote d’Ivoire,

Ghana, Benin, Togo and Nigeria

• 10-15 Undergraduates from Universities every

year

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 !

Location of IITA Stations and Active Partners in Sub-Saharan Africa

0° 20°E 40°E
30°N 30°N

Western
Sahara

Location Mauritania

Mali Niger

Logistic support Dakar Senegal

! ! Bambey
Niamey
Chad
Sudan
Eritrea

Gambia Bamako !

Spatial and ^ Maiduguri Djibouti

! !Ouagadougou

10°N
Guinea
Bissau
Guinea
Burkina Faso
Tamale
Benin Zaria !
Kano !
Nigeria
Maiduguri ^ 10°N
! Togo Ethiopia Somalia
Sierra ! Abuja
! Leone Cote d'Ivoire Ghana Ibadan Ife

analytical Freetown
!
Monrovia Kumasi!
Liberia
Abidjan
!
Accra
^
^^ ^
!
!
! Ibadan
!
Abakaliki
Cotonou OnneCameroon
Cotonou
!
Central African Republic

!Yaoundé
^
support Equatorial
Guinea
Sao Tome & Principe
Yaounde

Congo
Kampala
Uganda

^
Kenya

Nairobi
Gabon
Congo, DRC
Rwanda
! Butare
^
!
Nairobi
Bujumbura !Burundi
^
Seychelles
Kinshasa
Tanzania

Luanda
^ Dar es Salaam
Seychelles
!
10°S 10°S
Comoros Glorioso Is.
Mayotte
Malawi
Angola

Zambia
^ Lilongwe

^
^
St. Helena Nampula

Lusaka Harare
! Mozambique
Zimbabwe Madagascar

Reunion
Francistow
!
Namibia
Botswana

^ IITA Stations
Maputo
! Partners Pretoria
!
! ^
Manzini
! Maputo

Swaziland

30°S South Africa 30°S

Lesotho

0° 20°E 40°E

Geospatial Lab. IITA

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Probable Trends…… – Increased user base. Wider
user gap
– Centralized database –
multiple users
– Technology driven,
responding to contemporary
needs
– Interactive, real time
– Partnerships and
collaborations

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Constraints……. – Absorbing capacity of
user/user group

– Gap between available

technology and utilisation

– Constraints within an
environment in utilizing it

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Thank You

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