WATER ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT UNITArlon Campus Environnementwww.eed.ulg.ac.be

UNIVERSITY OF LIEGE (ULG)

« Satellites and models at the

service of agriculture

management »

Feeding the planet in 2050 - 06/24/2015

Marie LangPhD Student – Researchermarie.lang@ulg.ac.be

THE PROJECT

Feeding the planet in 2050 - 06/24/2015

AGRICAB – A framework for enhancing

EO capacity for Agriculture and Forest

Management in Africa as a contribution

to GEOSS

17 partners from 12 different

countries

Funded by the EC FP7 programme

October 2011 to March 2015

Ulg contribution: WP 3.2 on

livestock systems

Partners: ULg, CSE

(Senegal), CILSS (Niger),

ILRI (Kenya), CSU (USA)

OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT

Global Objective: Developing increased EO capacity for better

agriculture and forestry management in Africa

Objective of “livestock systems” WP: develop fodder biomass

production models using remote sensing data in Africa (Senegal,

Niger, Kenya + Global use case)

Feeding the planet in 2050 - 06/24/2015

RESULTS

Assessment of livestock mortality due to

drought in Northern Kenya

Modelling of fodder biomass production

(Senegal)

Feeding the planet in 2050 - 06/24/2015

« Stockage d’Energie: Défis et avancées technologiques »

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

Feeding the planet in 2050 - 06/24/2015

Capacity building:

3 PhD students and 1 post-doc

8 workshops for a total of 115 people

trained

Contribution to the improvement of

models of fodder biomass yield and

production assessment aimed mainly

to:

Food security (fodder availability,

livestock mortality …)

Natural resource management

FEEDING THE PLANETIN 2050

24TH of June 2015Belgian Pavilion