Geospatial Enablement Program for Agriculture

A discounted program with software, training, and content for government agencies in developing countries with a mandate in agriculture, aquaculture, or pastoral farming

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Farming for the future

Understanding the current agricultural landscape and planning for the future are critical to ensure sustainable development and food security. Esri's ArcGIS software helps organizations establish a database and baseline data, delivering the tools to streamline planning, mobile data collection, monitoring, analysis, forecasting, and decision support.

Esri’s Geospatial Program for Agriculture supports governmental agencies with a focus on agriculture, aquaculture, and pastoral farming to provide an affordable way to establish a geospatial foundation.

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Resources

Explore strategies on how to integrate Earth observations, imagery, field data, agribusiness, and real-time data streams to develop sustainable agricultural practices, make better decisions, and monitor and forecast production to sustainably feed the world’s growing population.

  • Establish your agricultural baseline

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  • GIS Field Data Collection for Agricultural Monitoring Applications

    Exploring the importance of GIS to ground truth data in agriculture for cropland and crop type mapping needs

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  • Satellites and Seeds

    Ensuring food security in Northern Uganda through GIS and geospatial analysis

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Related programs and resources

Understanding the current agricultural landscape and planning for the future is critical to ensuring sustainable development and improved food security. Explore more Esri resources designed to support and enhance your work.

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    Agriculture in Africa

    Explore, access, and contribute to resources and initiatives to improve agricultural practices and production in Africa through data and GIS technology.

    Explore the Africa Agriculture GeoPortal
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    Precision agriculture

    Explore how maps and spatial data analysis are used to understand, visualize, and plan farm management practices. Use them to address workflows, risk mitigation, improved regeneration practices, and social equity concerns.

    Learn more about precision agriculture
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    Sustainable agriculture development

    Learn how regenerative agricultural practices can help improve food security. Explore sustainable practices such as no-till, cover crops, rotational grazing, and CO2 sequestration, which support sustainable development goals (SDGs).

    Learn more about sustainable agriculture
    Learn about SDGs
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    Climate action

    Climate change and environmental stressors call for increased monitoring and understanding of local conditions. Discover datasets, examples, applications, and more at the GIS for Climate data hub.

    Explore the GIS for Climate Hub
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Support throughout the entire agricultural cycle

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    Planning and policy

    In order to understand today's farming and plan for its future, tools are needed to access, use, analyze, and manage large datasets. GIS provides a way to create possible scenarios and formulate plans, craft solutions, share insights, and, ultimately, act.

    Explore planning and policy resources
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    Crop health and inspection

    GIS tools help streamline field data collection. Combined with performance dashboards, they also increase data quality and operational efficiency. GIS enables farmers to monitor weather, track migratory pests, and model potential impacts to hasten interventions, reducing costs and damages.

    Explore crop health and inspection resources
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    Crop development and production

    GIS technology helps farmers map and visualize farm data, then analyze it to understand local differences and make better choices about agricultural inputs. In precision farming, location technology gives farmers the ability to balance and manage resources to improve the crop production and quality.

    Explore crop development and production resources
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    Food security

    Providing access to healthy, nutritious, and affordable food for all requires a sound understanding of food availability, production, local market prices, storage, and distribution. Bringing all this data together allows for informed decision-making and more resilient food systems.

    Explore food security resources
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What’s included in the program

With the program, agencies are provided access to .tools, apps, and services to help them further implement a location-based strategy within their community.

  • Core software

    Esri software supports data visualization, advanced analysis, data maintenance, and sharing the results within an organization and with the general public.

  • Access to content and data

    Esri provides authoritative and ready-to-use content, including datasets, basemaps, and apps that supplement existing geospatial data.

  • ArcGIS Solutions

    ArcGIS Solutions is a collection of industry-specific ArcGIS configurations to help you leverage your authoritative data and improve operations.

  • Training and expert help

    Esri offers many online training and in-person resources, such as passes to the Esri User Conference, discounted training courses, and seminars.

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Contact Esri

If you are interested in finding out if you and your organization qualify, fill out the form to reach one of Esri’s sales representatives for more information.