Comments on: Digitizing Africa: Starting with the Dirt

By: jke

jke — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:04:51 +0000

Dude…this reminds me of http://kikuyumoja.com/2005/12/20/soil-maps/ 😀

Great new site!

By: Bruce Pike

Bruce Pike — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 07:10:41 +0000

Very interested to read your comments about Kapoeta. You mentioned you were here during your childhood – when was that? We have been based on and off in Kapoeta since 1989. However my first visit was in l975. We are a commercial company mainly drilling boreholes throughout Eastern Equatoria but have concentrated in Taposa areas. Also we have established a small camp including workshop etc. Would love to hear any stories you might have when you were here. Kapoeta remains a small and dusty town with very little progress being made.

By: Martin Konzett

Martin Konzett — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:21:06 +0000

hash, check this out: a collection of about 20 PDFs visualizing the watersheds of the world … also Africa:
http://earthtrends.wri.org/maps_spatial/watersheds/africa.php

By: godsdog (godsdog)

godsdog (godsdog) — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:30:07 +0000

digitizing africa from the soil up. African Soils Information Service: http://bit.ly/4HxP via: http://bit.ly/C4Qy

By: Fertilizer subsidies in Africa - focusing on the long term :: BS KYAMBADDE

Fertilizer subsidies in Africa - focusing on the long term :: BS KYAMBADDE — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:04:40 +0000

[…] to support appropriate assessment ofÂ remediation and enrichment needs, such as pointed out by Eric. I should think approaches such as those of the Africa Soils Information Service (AfSIS) are meant […]

By: vethno

vethno — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:34:58 +0000

Great post, definitely something I’ve been looking into recently! I recently posted on the same topic and provided some additional interesting sites where such data could definitely benefit – Livestock early warning system, and Livestock information network and knowledge system. See http://www.vethno.com. Soil’s generally not a ‘sexy’ topic, yet it is a very important one…National Geographic just did an entire issue on it, also.

By: niti

niti — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:20:15 +0000

Erik,

Thank you for the sentence “stores their wealth in cows, but also grow some millet”.

Niti

By: Erik

Erik — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:47:02 +0000

Erik – I work with the people who are running this project. Let me know if you would like to contact any of them for more info. Just make sure not to use the word “dirt” that is a dirty word to a soil scientist 🙂

By: pragzz

pragzz — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:46:30 +0000

Erik,

This is a phenomenal project! It has the potential for SIGNIFICANT impact in a very good way on agricultural development, not just in sub Saharan Africa, but internationally. Thanks for highlighting it. I’m very excited to see it and hope it develops fully. And I’m curious to see how the information will be used in the future.

GREAT stuff!