Leveraging space technology for agricultural development and food security – 2025
Innovation from space to advance the global food security agenda.
Tag: Food Security
Ten EO Africa Tandem Projects Launched!
The EO AFRICA initiative, short for African Framework for Research, Innovation, Communities, and Applications, aims to sustain and strengthen an active African research community by fostering innovative processes for the continuous development of African Earth Observation (EO) capabilities. In collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC) and to enhance research cooperation between Africa and Europe, …
5 African universities are developing curricula under the EO AFRICA umbrella
In July 2024 the ESA EO AFRICA R&D Facility launched in collaboration with AUC a call for higher education teaching grants to develop curricula in an Earth Observation topic related to Water and Food Security. As outcome of the call, five proposals from African universities from Ethiopia, Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria and Benin have been selected …
SUP FCP – TERESA
Prime company: LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LU)Drought poses a severe threat to global water and food security, risking numerous food production systems (FAO, 2011), leading to economic risks and financial hardships in both developed and developing economies (Aghakouchak et al., 2015; Fleming‐Muñoz et al., 2023). Agriculture, utilizing 70% of freshwater globally, faces significant challenges in water-scarce regions, especially during periods of …
African Research Fellowships: Call 2024/2025
January’25 update: following an extensive review of the received applications, the 4 selected candidates have been informed about acceptance. INTRODUCTION The African Research Fellowship (ARF) program, jointly carried by ESA with the African Union Commission, was successfully initiated in 2021 with six African Fellows having completed their research at ESA. The program aims to …
AI4Platform: INFER – artIficial iNtelligence for Food sEcuRity –
Prime company: CGI ITALIA S.R.L. (IT)The artIficial iNtelligence for Food sEcuRity – INFER – Project aims to foster adoption of AI models for Earth Observation (EO) applications. Many initiatives have been recently launched by ESA to augment the availability of training data, to support new ideas through creation and management of challenges, and to incrementally adopt standards that facilitate interchange …
EO AFRICA: 4 African Research Fellows selected
At the beginning of 2023 the European Space Agency and the African Union Commission issued a call for 4 African Research Fellows to carry R&D activities for one year in ESA-ESRIN, Frascati. This was the second call, following the one successfully carried-out in 2021/2022. It aims at empowering African Researchers (PhD or Master degree with …
EO AFRICA F2F Training #6: Vegetation and Drought Monitoring from Space
January 23, 2023 - January 27, 2023
CRASTE-LF,
Sis EMI, Av. Ibn Sina
Rabat, 10090 Morocco
Rabat, 10090 Morocco
The 6th F2F course of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility will take place in Rabat, Morocco at CRASTE-LF (African Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology in French Language). This course will provide participants with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge on vegetation and drought monitoring based on satellite EO data. It will focus both …
EO AFRICA Food Security and Safety in Africa – AFRI4Cast
Prime company: AGROAPPS PC (GR)Afri4Cast project will develop a modeling platform making full exploitation of satellite remote sensing of PRISMA and ECOSTRESS sensors for climate change impact analyses on agriculture and making it available to African stakeholders for shaping future agricultural policies in the African Continent. Afri4Cast will provide national-, regional-, parcel-, pixel-specific in season production estimates, mycotoxin formation …
EO AFRIca multi-scale SMART agricultural water management – AFRI-SMART
Prime company: POLITECNICO DI MILANO (IT)The project investigates how sustainable agriculture can be achieved in the Africa continent under drought conditions, by co-developing innovative scientific EO-based and state-of-the-art modelling solutions together with African experts increasing their knowledge and capacity, developing an operative platform and database for results visualization and sharing with the end-users.