How has covid affected your routine? Have your habits changed a lot?
Well, COVID has affected the world population a lot, did you know that according to the ASAP forecast there will be a 25% increase in the population that needs food aid? And that there will be a 100% increase in the population suffering from food insecurity or worse conditions?
It was facing the challenge of determining how COVID-19 is affecting food supply in different places in the world , that GROW emerged.
Directly impacting the UN's global objectives, with a focus on health, addressing conscious consumption, food security, economic development and sustainable production through partnerships.
GROW is an integrated platform with the objective of helping public agencies to tackle food insecurity, using NASA's geographic data obtained by MERRA, GRACE and FAO to encourage local cooperatives and connect these bodies to final consumers.
To support government decisions, we rely on NASA satellite surveillance, which monitors a wide range of variables that affect their plantations, such as soil moisture and surface temperature, as well as pricing and demand data from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
As an incentive to cooperatives, we gather nutritional data about foods that are being affected by the economic logistics of food transport, to replace them with other foods with equivalent nutritional value. Thus, we move the local economy and keep individuals nourished and satisfied.
Finally, focusing on informing the population and strengthening government support data, GROW provides an interactive channel with the end consumers.
Our future goals are to expand our data collection, to monitor and feed data in real time using NASA datasets, and also to make various partnerships where applied.
Our team choose this challenge because everyone had a connection with the proposal of the challenge and also had the urge to treat about a so important matter on the lives of many: food and nourishment.
We started the development of our ideas by using the design thinking approach, executing immersion, idea generation and prototyping in a co-creative manner, always gathering feedback from professionals from the area and NASA SpaceApps mentors.
We used the NASA datasets to support our project decisions regarding agriculture and farming. As of the software and tols, we used: Adobe Premiere, Adobe XD, Figma, Adobe Photoshop, MATLAB, Adobe Illustrator, Giovanni and GNU OCTAVE. Unfortunately, on our data searchings, we didn't achieve the expected results, since there is a lack of accountability from some countries and also on the gathering of data during the COVID-19 pandemic, so many of the places we searched upon are not working with up-to-date or open data about the disease inside the countries.
Data about colombia (https://www.dane.gov.co/)
High purchase of staple foods to stock and ensure food security
http://www.fao.org/giews/food-prices/food-policies/detail/en/c/1272631/
Political measures to facilitate import and ban export:
http://www.fao.org/giews/food-prices/food-policies/detail/en/c/1272635/
Site:http://www.fao.org/giews/country-analysis/external-assistance/en/
Temperature maps:
https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/GRACEDADM_CLSM0125US_7D_2.0/summary?keywords=TEMPERATURE%20INDICATORS
https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/M2TMNPTDT_5.12.4/summary?keywords=TEMPERATURE%20INDICATORS
Adequate relationship between rainfall and agricultural production of fundamental products in each location according to their climate.
https://fpma.apps.fao.org/giews/food-prices/tool/public/#/dataset/international (Export / import prices)
http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/foodpricesindex/en/ (food price index)
http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#compare (Production index by product and location, price, food balance, agricultural environment indicators such as temperature changes, pesticides, emissions, land use and others)
http://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/PP (price of producers, relative to certain products, of certain places and years)
http://www.fao.org/prices/en/ (price variation between the current and reference periods of the average basket of goods and services purchased by households)
https://fpma.apps.fao.org/giews/food-prices/tool/public/#/home (DASHBOARD WITH INTERNATIONAL AND HOUSEHOLD PRICES)
http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/csdb/en/ (CEREALS OFFER AND DEMAND)
http://www.fao.org/giews/data-tools/en/ (CEREAL BALANCE SHEET, PRICE ANALYSIS TOOLS AND LAND MONITORING FOR CULTURES / AGRICULTURAL STRESS INDEX)
http://www.fao.org/economic/est/est-commodities/en/#.XtHeCmhKg2x(MARKET, CULTIVATION AND PROSPECTS)
http://www.fao.org/in-action/fapda/tool/index.html#main.html (ANALYSIS OF DECISION ON FOOD POLICY)
https://datalab.review.fao.org/ (FAO big data that lists, COVID, food insecurity, food prices and mentions on social networks)
http://www.fao.org/giews/countrybrief/index.jsp (country brief / government measures, resolution of food insecurity, production / export / import forecast)
http://www.fao.org/3/ca9237en/CA9237EN.pdf (FAO article that mentions impacts of the corona and how the number of agricultural workers behaved, in addition to the countries that have more income characterized by agriculture)
https://issuu.com/editorarubio/docs/issuu_tabelas_de_eq_dos_alimentos(Page 252 contains nutritional replacement foods)
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/water-quality-data-pathfinder
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/pathfinders/agricultural-and-water-resources-data-pathfinder
https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/mapping/viewer/
https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/#
https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthdata-login
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/PrecisionFarming