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Experiences in designing a mobile GIS mapping tool for rural farmers in Ghana

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The task of balancing problems associated with population growth and food production has often been impaired by a lack of accurate information on food supply availability in any given region or time. Such data has conventionally been gathered by legions of field workers who must travel to individual farms and collect information by hand. Predictably, data collection has been slow, error-prone, and difficult to maintain. There is therefore a need to develop tools and techniques that can quickly and accurately generate relevant and up-to-date information on food production.

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            ACM DEV-4 '13: Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development
            December 2013
            176 pages
            ISBN:9781450325585
            DOI:10.1145/2537052

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