UAV-ARSIS Community of Practice workshop II

Participants from Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda will attend a participatory Community of Practice workshop at PrideInn Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya on 6 – 7 June 2016. The objectives of the meeting are as follows:

• Identify/strengthen the communities of practice in support of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Agriculture Remote Sensing Information Systems (ARSIS) innovation
• Share with participants lessons learned to date by various stakeholder groups in UAV-ARSIS innovation, UAV4AG platform, other experiences in STARS and the enabling environment
• Continue the learning and assessment of UAV-ARSIS innovation, it products and communication products, and what these mean for your practice
• Identifying/strengthening the networks of collaboration across stakeholder groups and regions that enable UAV-ARSIS as a sustainable innovation
• Assessment of where we are, and identification of steps/actions to develop the impact pathways in stakeholder group community of practice, and key actors and actions in support of UAV-ARSIS
• Towards a theory of change – communities of practice, capacities, enabling conditions: how can ARSIS become part of the tools that improve agriculture and the wellbeing of smallholder farmers?

Invited institutions

• National bureaus of statistics
• National Civil Aviation Authorities
• National Research Institutes
• Ministries of Agriculture and Livestock/Environment
• Universities (University of Nairobi, Kenyatta University, Sokoine University, Makerere University and University of Twente – The Netherlands)
• CG centers (CIAT, CIMMYT, ICRAF, ICRISAT and ILRI)
• Local Authorities
• Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA)
• Babban Gona (Nigeria)
• ASARECA
• FAO – Nairobi, Kenya
• Farmers’ associations
• Media

Contact person: Dr. Dieudonné Harahagazwe (d.harahagazwe(at)cgiar.org)