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| (FSIEWS) FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS ROME – 2000” The PDF version can be downloaded | (FSIEWS) FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS ROME – 2000” The PDF version can be downloaded | ||
| [[http://www.hoefsloot.com/downloads/Manual%20of%20FSIEWS.pdf here]] | [[http://www.hoefsloot.com/downloads/Manual%20of%20FSIEWS.pdf here]] | ||
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| Some examples of crop monitoring systems have been documented by Jan Jansonius in an Annex to the "Guidelines for Crop Forecasting". These examples are available [[http://www.hoefsloot.com/downloads/Guidelines-JJ%20-%20ANNEX3.pdf here]] | Some examples of crop monitoring systems have been documented by Jan Jansonius in an Annex to the "Guidelines for Crop Forecasting". These examples are available [[http://www.hoefsloot.com/downloads/Guidelines-JJ%20-%20ANNEX3.pdf here]] | ||
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Introduction
Crop monitoring is in this context part a part of a Food Security Information and Early Warning System. How to set up such is system is out of scope for this tutorial. However, a good general manual is published by FAO. It is called “Handbook for Defining and Setting up a Food Security Information and Early Warning System (FSIEWS) FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS ROME – 2000” The PDF version can be downloaded [here]
Examples of crop monitoring systems
Some examples of crop monitoring systems have been documented by Jan Jansonius in an Annex to the "Guidelines for Crop Forecasting". These examples are available [here]