Monitoring Soil Organic Carbon for Enhancing Climate Resilience for Agricultural Landscapes in Nigeria
The GDA’s Climate Resilience Consortium has developed a satellite-based system to monitor soil organic carbon in northern Nigeria, helping farmers build climate resilience and promote sustainable land management.
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Together with the World Bank, GMV as part of the Climate Resilience Consortium has designed a system for monitoring soil organic carbon in the croplands of northern Nigeria. Nigeria’s agriculture sector has suffered in recent years as major crop yields have been steadily declining over the past two decades, partly due to climate change. The system is aimed to estimate changes in soil carbon in crop lands resulting from land management. To do this, the Climate Resilience team developed a methodology that uses satellite data analysis and machine learning to identify crops, determine their agronomic practices, and estimate the topsoil organic carbon content.
This activity is facilitating the Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) project from the World Bank, which aims to increase the implementation of sustainable landscape management practices in targeted watersheds in northern Nigeria and strengthen Nigeria’s capacity for integrated climate-resilient landscape management, by supporting the setting up a Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) Measurement Reporting Verification (MRV) system.
You can read more about this Case Study here: Soil monitoring helps build climate resilience for Nigeria’s farmers