1. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 1 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop Livestock watering availability and accessibility based on remote sensed small water bodies and national wells database: a preliminary study in Niger Giancarlo Pini, Eduardo Marinho, Ferdinando Urbano JRC-IES MARS-FOODSEC

2. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 2 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop Livestock is crucial for livelihood of millions of people living in food insecure areas Livestock and related issues are quite “neglected” in most of the Food Security EWS, probably because of lack of data and monitoring difficulties WHY?

3. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 3 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop Water availability and accessibility is a basic concern for breeders Limitation of this resource could have negative impact on movement possibilities and consequently in the exploitation of pasture resources WHY?

4. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 4 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop Provide information for planning purposes Identify strategic small water bodies to be monitored in an EW view OBJECTIVES

5. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 5 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop Small Water bodies detection based on 10 daily SPOT images 1km* (free available @ VGT4Africa Web Site) Villages (INS, 2003) Georeferenced wells (from SIGNER project), out of a buffer of 2km from villages FAPAR derived from SPOT images 1km (free available @ VGT4Africa Web Site) * Ref: Detection of surface water with SPOT/VEGETATION - Bruno Combal, Eva Haas, Etienne Bartholomé - 2009 DATA

6. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 6 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop WATER AVAILABILITY: how many? Potential Dry time

7. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 7 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop WATER AVAILABILITY: how many? Potential Dry time

8. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 8 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop WATER AVAILABILITY: how many? Potential Humid time

9. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 9 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop WATER AVAILABILITY: how many? Potential Planning Humid time

10. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 10 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop Distance of “pastoral wells” from closest detected SWB WATER ACCESSIBILITY: how far? Planning * Humid time Dry time

11. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 11 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop SD/Dist of “pastoral wells” from closest detected SWB Planning WATER ACCESSIBILITY: how far? * Humid time Dry time

12. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 12 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop Distance of detected SWB from closest “pastoral wells” Monitoring WATER ACCESSIBILITY: how far? * Humid time Dry time

13. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 13 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop CONCLUSIONS 1/3 The study is in a preliminary stage but the results are quite interesting It shows the lack of water availability in some important grazing areas and drive the extension of pastoral water network It confirms the importance of monitoring the water bodies for their essential contribution in assuring livestock watering in most part of the country

14. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 14 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop There is a general need to have better quality data: establish new or strength present collaborations/networks with data providers at international and national level All data are free and easily available: the study can be replicated by national institutions easily CONCLUSIONS 2/3

15. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 15 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop Strength the network of information producers/researchers community and share experiences, approaches and methodologies CONCLUSIONS 3/3

16. JRC Place on dd Month YYYY – Event Name 16 Nairobi - 26-30/09/2011 - Crop and Rangeland Monitoring Workshop THANK YOU