Leveraging spatial technology for agricultural intensification to address hunger in Ghana

Odame, P.K. and Boateng, E.N.K. 2022. Leveraging spatial technology for agricultural intensification to address hunger in Ghana. IN: Solís, P. and Zeballos, M. (eds.), Open Mapping towards Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Cham: Springer: 29-45. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05182-1_3

YouthMappers are using open geospatial tools in support of initiatives seeking to achieve SGD 2 Zero Hunger and SDG 1 No Poverty in Northern Ghana. Students and researchers designed survey questions and a field data collection workflow using simple but cost-effective technology to catalogue a database of farmers, properly demarcate farm sizes, and give farmers, in particular impoverished women, the opportunity to project farm yields and increase the efficiency of their output.