Telling a story about the future of crops
This month, the Department of Agricultural Land Management (DALaM), with the support of the FAO/GEF project Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information System (SAMIS), will make the Land Resources Information Management System (LRMIS) public.
One might think that the LRMIS is only about maps. Instead, DALaM and NAFRI went onward to develop a better system that help about an harmonized thinking on the agricultural planning. Often, in the past, it is quite difficult to access and use the data produced by the government or by other entities. This was due to either poor of data platform nor linkage among data hub.
Using scenarios of crop productivity in the future, two storymaps have been produced, one for the future of maize, and one for the future of cassava. These storymaps will help policy makers and planners
The story maps produced so far relates to cassava and maize. The storymaps will now be submitted for discussion to the Department of Policy and Legal Affairs (DoPLA). The Department will pilot the storymaps in provinces where the two crops are growth. The experts (civil society, private sector, government technicians) based on these location will interact with technical experts from central offices to improve, comment, or modify the storymaps.
At the moment, A second round of consultations has at DALAM and NAFRI has started to work about banana and coffee storymaps too. The activites are guided and supervised by the Utrecht of Utrecht in Netherlands. For details, you can watch the video in lao language is here: