DEPARTMENT FOR BUSINESS, ENERGY & INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY

Monitoring Agricultural Productivity for Climate Adaptation Mongolia (MAPCAM)

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Description

MAPCAM (Monitoring Agricultural Production for Climate Adaptation in Mongolia) will provide satellite-derived information on crop distribution and growth to help stakeholders in Mongolia’s agricultural sector to plan for increased production and resilience to climate change. Mongolia experiences extremes of climate and has already witnessed above-average impacts from climate change on domestically grown agricultural crops.   The establishment of the MAPCAM parcel-based agricultural information system within Mongolia promises to be world-leading in the way that it integrates the collection and use of cropping data for crop intelligence, production forecasting, regulatory controls and agricultural statistics, combined with it offering producers a crop recording system and tool for smart farming. There are expected to be many requirements and opportunities for further expansion, both for further improving the operational system established in Mongolia, and for new developments in other countries.

Objectives

Mongolia experiences extremes of climate and has already witnessed above average impacts from climate change. Domestically grown agricultural crops contribute over 50% of national dietary intake. In order to support its policy of self-sufficiency for key crops, the Government of Mongolia requires better information on cropped areas as metrics for analysis of productivity that will allow better policy formulation and the prescription of appropriate interventions, thus securing the impacts on food security and resilience to climate change sought by the project. The primary objective is to develop the capability to acquire and use such information throughout the growing season: detailed data on the location, extent, type and variability of crops derived from innovative satellite technology. Secondarily there will be scope to deliver co-benefits through additional services to a wider group of organisations involved in agricultural management and production. Partnerships will be formed with Mongolian government, academic institutions, and private entities, to develop understanding of the requirements and a specification for crop monitoring and information services. Key to success will be new capacity, built through an Operational Phase, that will lead to the development of a routine monitoring activity that facilitates better evidence-based policy making and interventions to enable adaption to a changing climate with a positive impact on rural livelihoods, gender equality, youth opportunities and national food security. Sustainability will be ensured by adapting business processes in need of information whose efficiency could be substantially improved by reallocating existing domestic spending to solutions based on satellite technology.

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Location

The country, countries or regions that benefit from this Programme.

Mongolia