GEOGLAM Crop Monitor, for the Agricultural Monitoring Information System (AMIS)

Crop monitor reports

About the AMIS Crop Monitor: The AMIS crop monitor was launched by GEOGLAM in 2013 as a direct response to the G20 Action Plan on Food Price Volatility and Agriculture. GEOGLAM provides a framework which strengthens the international community’s capacity to produce and disseminate relevant, timely and accurate consensus based forecasts of agricultural production at national, regional and global scales through the use of Earth Observations (EO) including satellite and ground-based observations. This initiative is designed to build on a consensus existing agricultural monitoring programs and initiatives at national, regional and global levels and to enhance and strengthen them through international networking, operationally focused research, and data/method sharing.

Within this framework, GEOGLAM developed the Crop Monitor reports which provide global crop condition assessments in support of the AMIS market monitoring activities. The first issue of the Crop Monitor appeared in the September 2013 issue of the AMIS Market Monitor.

Each month 44 partners come together with their own monitoring and in-situ observations to address discrepancies and create a consensus report. Because it is a consensus of all the best science based information plus on the ground experience the end product is considered to be the authoritative source of current global growing conditions, Consequently partnership are key to the entire process and several of our partner monitoring products can be accessed from the links below:

Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) and Special Bulletins

While the AMIS Market Monitor and Crop Monitor reports focus strongly on agricultural production and markets in large producer countries, the methods for creating the Crop Monitor for AMIS reports have shown to be transferrable to food security applications. So building on the success of the AMIS monitors the methods were adapted and applied to countries at risk of food production shortfalls. First published in February 2016, the Crop Monitor for Early Warning monitors many countries not covered by the AMIS reports.

Each month 14 partners from the global food security response community come together with their own monitoring and in-situ observations to address discrepancies and create a consensus report. Because it is a consensus of all the best science based information plus on the ground experience, the end product is considered to be the authoritative source of current global growing conditions. Partnerships are key to the entire process and several of our partner monitoring products can be accessed from the links below:

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