UN Division for Sustainable Development

Case Study Detail Record

Organization type:	Government

Name of Ministry/Agency:	Federal Planning Bureau

Country:	Belgium

Name of Focal Point:	Christian Vanden Bilcke, Nadine Gouzée

Initiative Title:	Global Monitoring for Food Security (GMFS)

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Scope:

Status:

Timeframe:	Start: End:

Lead Institution:	EC

Stakeholders/Partners:	Participation: PPS Science Policy Funding: European Space Agency (ESA)

Relevent issues:	- Food security and sustainable agriculture - Early warning systems for monitoring food supply and demand

Objectives/Challenges:

GMFS aims to provide earth observation based services and encourage partnerships in monitoring Food Security and related environmental processes in Africa, by concerting efforts to bring data and information providers together, in order to assist stakeholders, nations and international organizations to better implement their policies towards sustainable development.

Summary:

GMFS provides early warning, agricultural mapping and crop yield assessment services in support of food security monitoring activities in Africa. GMFS partners are key actors in the sector at the international (EC and UN), regional (Regional Economic Communities or key institutes) and national level (Ministries of Agriculture or national Food Security Monitoring groupings). At national level GMFS activities focus on Ethiopia, Sudan, Senegal, Zimbabwe and Malawi.
Focus:
• GSE Co-location meeting 5 took place at ESRIN, Italy. The meeting convened all GSE projects to discuss on the future implementation of developed services
• The FAO and GMFS catalogues have been integrated. GMFS products can be explored through FAO geonetwork.
• The FAO/EC project on food information services has been launched in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. GMFS is part of the area estimates component.