The World Bank Group is fighting hunger worldwide. To provide more targeted support, they need to know: Where do unfavourable crop-growing conditions prevail? What are the average conditions? Where are the agricultural fields located? When can an upcoming food crisis be anticipated?
For their compass, we built crop type maps for the respective main crops in 15 countries. Furthermore, we built time series for crop health indicators such as soil moisture, air temperature and vegetation health. The World Bank Group uses our results to detect and assess non-optimal growth conditions early on, combines the indicators with further parameters like food prices and plans their supportive activities to counteract negative climate impacts.
Anticipatory actions like this ensure support is more targeted and efficient. Such projects can actually save lives and livelihoods – with the help of our earth observation data and analytics skills.