1. GEOGLAM and UN Sustainable Development Goals

2. GEOGLAM Objectives
To strengthen the international community’s capacity to produce & disseminate relevant, timely and accurate information & forecasts on agricultural production at national, regional & global scales, through reinforced use of Earth Observations
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3. Crop Monitor for Early Warning
GEOGLAM Crop Monitors Crop Monitor for AMIS & Crop Monitor for Early Warning
AMIS: Agricultural Market Information System, a G20 initiative
Crop Monitor for AMIS (Corn, Maize, Rice, Soybeans)
Crop Monitor for Early Warning
End of August 2016 – 4-Crop Conditions
End of August 2016 Maize Conditions
1 new condition «Failure»
3 more drivers
Pest & Disease
Socio-Political
Delayed Onset
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4. GEOGLAM Crop Monitors & Economics
Information Asymmetry (IA) Theory
IA Definition: study of decisions in transactions where one party has more or better information than the other
IA consequences: transactions going sometimes awry, with in worst cases market failure
From 1970, series of IA papers by Akerlof, by Spence and by Stiglitz
2001: Nobel Price in Economics awarded to Akerlof, Spence & Stiglitz
GEOGLAM and Information (a)symmetry
By producing & openly disseminating relevant, timely and accurate information and forecasts on agricultural production…
… GEOGLAM contributes to an efficient functioning of markets.
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5. SD Goal 2 “End Hunger” Target 2.c informed by Crop Monitors
Adopt measures to ensure the proper functioning of food commodity markets and their derivatives and facilitate timely access to market information, including on food reserves, in order to help limit extreme food price volatility
End of August 2016 Crop Conditions
By producing & openly disseminating relevant, timely and accurate information and forecasts on agricultural production…
… GEOGLAM fully contributes to SDG Target 2.c
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6. SDG Target 2.1
2.1 By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
GEOGLAM is…
Contributing to our understanding of what is being cultivated when and where, and provides objective and repeatable outlooks for production (and its anomalies) in advance of harvests
--> e.g. through production tracking, potentially countries with different calendars could see what's being cultivated and adjust guidance
Potential biomass departure, Apr-Jul 2015
China CropWatch (CAS-RADI)
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7. SDG Target 2.3
2.3 By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
Information asymetry in case of droughts in neighbouring regions: agricultural traders know, small-holder farmers don’t…
GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning
has potential to contribute to an increase of income of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers by providing them with necessary info on neighbouring droughts to negotiate better prices from agricultural traders
--> e.g. through production tracking, potentially countries with different calendars could see what's being cultivated and adjust guidance
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8. SDG Target 2.a
2.a Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in agricultural research and extension services, technology development (…) in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries. 
GEOGLAM is…
Facilitating international coordination and collaboration around improving early warning of crop failure & strengthening food security.
GEOGLAM Crop Monitor for Early Warning
Monthly international consensus reporting on productivity outlooks in developing countries
GEOGLAM is…
Coordinating EO-based agricultural research under a global framework
Joint Experiment on Crop Assessment and Monitoring
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9. SDG Target 2.4
2.4 By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality.
GEOGLAM is…
Coordinating international research & development activities on finding pathways toward long-term sustainable agriculture.
Enhancing capacity to assess interannual variability in cultivation practices and their impacts on cropland productivity & on the environment.
Investigating sustainable cropland management practices.
Fostering South-South transfer through capacity development workshops and partnerships.
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