Is EO suitable only to provide global food production monitoring or it can help also to farmers in developing countries? Is the resolution of current EO limitation? Where EO could help to farmers? What could be killing applications? Are this climatic analysis or some other analysis? This and more other questions we are trying to answer in EO4Agri projects http://www.eo4agri.eu/ . See our gap analysis report https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336022413_EO4AGRI_D22-Initial-Workshop-User-Requirements-and-Gap-Analysis-in-Different-Sectors-Report-v10 and try to help us identify additional possibilities or comment our conclusion. During the project we already discussed our ideas with African community during Nairobi INSPIRE Hack https://www.plan4all.eu/2019/04/team-1-progress-report-i/
Knowledge of soil ecology,soil microbiology and soil chemistry can help to solve global food safety. Effects of fertilizers and pesticides mis used and application plays a major role.
The use of Earth observation (EO) data among interdisciplinary and multi-agency teams can significantly advance scientific knowledge of existing public health threats to human, animal, and ecosystem health. The analysis of these geospatial data can enhance our understanding of the dynamic processes of the surrounding ecosystem and influence on human health. These data can also support disease preparedness and response actions in disease epidemic or humanitarian efforts. And because good Health mean Food safet, we can say that " Earth Observation help to solve problems of health and Global Food safety
For more details ,see
https://www.earthobservations.org/documents/gwp20_22/eo_for_health_ip.pdf
Am interested in the EO observation. If you have workshop / project in Nigeria pls contact me.
Dear Maged,
thanks for this answer. We will try discuss questions of EO for food security on next GEO meeting in Canberra.