CGIAR-CSI

CSI: San Diego - Esri International User Conference

We're excited to participate the 2011 Esri International User Conference (San Diego, CA on 11-15 July) with our own big booth and five sessions!

Paper Session 1. Climate Change and Agriculture: Assessing Impact and Adaptation Options
Paper Session 2. Intercomparison of Spatial Datasets from Different Sources: Implication on Agricultural Research
Paper Session 3. High Resolution Imagery for Smallholders: the Backbone of Next Generation Agricultural Information Systems
Panel Session 1. Facing reality in developing countries: Working with research partners with limited resources
Panel Session 2. Spatial downscaling/disaggregation of datasets for food security analysis

Spatial Analysis of Plant Diversity & Distribution

Bioversity International has published a “Training Manual on Spatial Analysis of Plant Diversity and Distribution”. The manual has been developed because of an increasing number of requests of national partners for capacity building on the spatial analysis of biodiversity. It is intended for scientists and students who work with biodiversity data and are interested in developing or improving their skills to carry out spatial analysis. It has been designed to serve as a self-teaching manual, but may also be used for training courses and contains nearly 500 Mb of data that accompany specially designed exercises, based on real studies.

Download Manual and Exercise Data

GCM Downscaled Climate Data Portal by CCAFS and DAPA

Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and Decision and Policy Analysis (DAPA) at CIAT continue the effort to provide a portal to the spatially downscaled GCM datasets. The original data have been originally downloaded from the IPCC data portal and re-processed using an spline interpolation algorithm of the anomalies and the current distribution of climates from the WorldClim database developed by Hijmans et al. (2005). All GCMs presented here come from the fourth and third IPCC Assessment Reports.

Data Download

AAGW 2010 Presentation Archive

Missed presentations at the Africa Agriculture GIS Week 2010?
Here is your chance to catch up!

Google Docs or Scribd

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Spatial Science in the Service of Global Food Security and Sustainable Livelihoods

The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) is a global partnership dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger, improving human health and nutrition, and enhancing ecosystem resilience through advanced agricultural research. The Consortium for Spatial Information (CGIAR-CSI) is the CGIAR community that promotes and practices the application of spatial science to achieving these goals most effectively.

Latest Dataset

CRU-TS 3.1 Climate Database
In April 2011, the University of East Anglia released the CRU-TS 3.1 Climate Database (See the official data release at http://badc.nerc.ac.uk/data/cru). This new version of database covers from 1901 to…
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Latest Center Showcase

Training Manual on Spatial Analysis of Plant Diversity and Distribution
Bioversity International has published a “Training Manual on Spatial Analysis of Plant Diversity and Distribution”. The manual has been developed because of an increasing number of requests of national partners…
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CSI Stream

Re: [CGIAR-CSI] [Wanted] GIS files for Zambia and Malawi enumeration areas
CGIAR-CSI Community Google Group | 24 Apr 2012 | 8:46 am
Re: [CGIAR-CSI] [Wanted] GIS files for Zambia and Malawi enumeration areas
CGIAR-CSI Community Google Group | 24 Apr 2012 | 6:43 am
[Data] Aboveground Live Woody Biomass from WHRC
CGIAR-CSI BLOG | 22 Mar 2012 | 8:09 pm
Validating Agricultural Land Cover with Geo-Wiki
CGIAR-CSI BLOG | 7 Oct 2011 | 12:36 pm

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)

= Africa Rice Center + Bioversity International + CIAT + CIFOR + CIMMYT + CIP + ICARDA
+ ICRISAT + IFPRI + IITA + ILRI + IRRI + IWMI + World Agroforestry Centre + WorldFish Center
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