Mapping spatial distribution and geographic shifts of east African highland banana (Musa spp.) in Uganda

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agricultureen
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Researchen
cg.contributor.affiliationNational Agricultural Research Organisation, Ugandaen
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananas
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.coverage.countryUganda
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2UG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierDennis Ochola: 0000-0003-0179-3607
cg.creator.identifierGodfrey Taulya: 0000-0002-5690-0492
cg.creator.identifierPiet van Asten: 0000-0003-0584-3552
cg.creator.identifierKen E Giller: 0000-0002-5998-4652
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263439en
cg.identifier.iitathemeNATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1932-6203en
cg.issue2en
cg.journalPLOS ONEen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.iitaAGRONOMYen
cg.subject.iitaBANANAen
cg.subject.iitaFOOD SECURITYen
cg.subject.iitaPLANT BREEDINGen
cg.subject.iitaPLANT PRODUCTIONen
cg.subject.iitaVALUE CHAINSen
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
cg.subject.sdgSDG 1 - No povertyen
cg.subject.sdgSDG 2 - Zero hungeren
cg.volume17en
dc.contributor.authorOchola, D.en
dc.contributor.authorBoekelo, B.en
dc.contributor.authorVen, G.W. van deen
dc.contributor.authorTaulya, G.en
dc.contributor.authorKubiriba, Jeromeen
dc.contributor.authorAsten, Piet J.A. vanen
dc.contributor.authorGiller, Kenneth E.en
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-10T10:52:53Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-10T10:52:53Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/126738
dc.titleMapping spatial distribution and geographic shifts of east African highland banana (Musa spp.) in Ugandaen
dcterms.abstractEast African highland banana (Musa acuminata genome group AAA-EA; hereafter referred to as banana) is critical for Uganda’s food supply, hence our aim to map current distribution and to understand changes in banana production areas over the past five decades. We collected banana presence/absence data through an online survey based on high-resolution satellite images and coupled this data with independent covariates as inputs for ensemble machine learning prediction of current banana distribution. We assessed geographic shifts of production areas using spatially explicit differences between the 1958 and 2016 banana distribution maps. The biophysical factors associated with banana spatial distribution and geographic shift were determined using a logistic regression model and classification and regression tree, respectively. Ensemble models were superior (AUC = 0.895; 0.907) compared to their constituent algorithms trained with 12 and 17 covariates, respectively: random forests (AUC = 0.883; 0.901), gradient boosting machines (AUC = 0.878; 0.903), and neural networks (AUC = 0.870; 0.890). The logistic regression model (AUC = 0.879) performance was similar to that for the ensemble model and its constituent algorithms. In 2016, banana cultivation was concentrated in the western (44%) and central (36%) regions, while only a small proportion was in the eastern (18%) and northern (2%) regions. About 60% of increased cultivation since 1958 was in the western region; 50% of decreased cultivation in the eastern region; and 44% of continued cultivation in the central region. Soil organic carbon, soil pH, annual precipitation, slope gradient, bulk density and blue reflectance were associated with increased banana cultivation while precipitation seasonality and mean annual temperature were associated with decreased banana cultivation over the past 50 years. The maps of spatial distribution and geographic shift of banana can support targeting of context-specific intensification options and policy advocacy to avert agriculture driven environmental degradation.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2022-02-17
dcterms.bibliographicCitationOchola, D., Boekelo, B., van de Ven, G.W., Taulya, G., Kubiriba, J., van Asten, P. & Giller, K. (2022). Mapping spatial distribution and geographic shifts of east African highland banana (Musa spp.) in Uganda. PloS ONE, 17(2): 0263439, 1-28.en
dcterms.extent1-28en
dcterms.issued2022-02-17
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen
dcterms.subjectbananasen
dcterms.subjectfruit cropsen
dcterms.subjectgeographyen
dcterms.subjectmachine learningen
dcterms.subjectgeographical distributionen
dcterms.subjectcropsen
dcterms.subjectugandaen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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