PRISE

About PRISE

PRISE helps to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers by reducing crop losses caused by pests across four sub-Saharan African countries.
Data from a variety of sources – satellite observations, weather data, geographic data, and details about the spread and biology of pests – are combined in a data cube to run algorithms, which ultimately produce pest risk forecasts. These are used to give farmers timely alerts and advice to help manage local pest outbreaks.

Satellite solutions

PRISE uses a range of satellite data to provide pest risk models with environmental information.

Weather data

PRISE uses a range of satellite data to provide pest risk models with environmental information.

Pest Modelling

PRISE uses a range of satellite data to provide pest risk models with environmental information.

PRISE models risk to crop health from insect pests and plant diseases based on environmental data. Tailored messages are used to provide a risk assessment to growers in particular regions. Advice and support is offered by the Plantwise network and other agricultural extension services, and subscribers are prompted to provide crowdsourced feedback, which is used to validate the model. This feedback loop provides greater confidence in the forecasts. 

crop health advisors using a tablet device to access advisory information

40,000+ farmers reached in 2019

“Generally, the alerts were useful to farmers and farmers who followed the right management options available for the pests and used proper inputs, such as top dressing fertilizers, their crops were not highly affected.”

 

— Block extension officer and plant doctor
Zambia

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PRISE Project Partners

PRISE is delivered by a consortium of UK and international partners.

CABI

CABI is an international not-for-profit organization with a mission to improve people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Through knowledge sharing and science, CABI helps address issues of global concern, such as

  • safeguarding the environment
  • improving global food security
  • helping farmers grow more and lose less of what they produce

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CABI

CABI is an international not-for-profit organization with a mission to improve people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Through knowledge sharing and science, CABI helps address issues of global concern, such as

  • safeguarding the environment
  • improving global food security
  • helping farmers grow more and lose less of what they produce

CABI

CABI is an international not-for-profit organization with a mission to improve people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Through knowledge sharing and science, CABI helps address issues of global concern, such as

  • safeguarding the environment
  • improving global food security
  • helping farmers grow more and lose less of what they produce

CABI

CABI is an international not-for-profit organization with a mission to improve people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Through knowledge sharing and science, CABI helps address issues of global concern, such as

  • safeguarding the environment
  • improving global food security
  • helping farmers grow more and lose less of what they produce

CABI

CABI is an international not-for-profit organization with a mission to improve people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Through knowledge sharing and science, CABI helps address issues of global concern, such as

  • safeguarding the environment
  • improving global food security
  • helping farmers grow more and lose less of what they produce

CABI

CABI is an international not-for-profit organization with a mission to improve people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. Through knowledge sharing and science, CABI helps address issues of global concern, such as

  • safeguarding the environment
  • improving global food security
  • helping farmers grow more and lose less of what they produce

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