Smallholder agriculture productivity must increase in Ethiopia to meet the demands of a growing population to avert food insecurity
CONTINUED FOREST PROTECTION MUST BE CORE TO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
- Marginal lands are now being used for crop production to feed an ever-growing population.
- Agriculture productivity must increase to meet demand, intensification rather than intensification.
- Currently, an urgent need exists for information to maximize yield based on land capabilities to mitigate land degradation, improve productivity, and to alleviate food insecurity.
- NASA's role in Earth observation is essential for merging cutting-edge modeling with very high-resolution commercial data to inform the sustainability of current land use and food security.
- Long-term effects of a lack of land tenure rights can be addressed with multi-resolution remote sensing data to relieve land pressure and move toward sustainable management practices.
