Sammy-Murumwa/Food-Security-Monitoring-Tool-for-Karamoja-Uganda.

# Food-Security-Monitoring-Tool-for-Karamoja-Uganda. Karamoja [en.wikipedia.org] is a region in the North-Eastern part of Uganda and is administratively divided into seven districts: Kaabong, Abim, Kotido, Moroto, Amudat, Napak and Nakapiripirit. The region has a cumulative population of 1,504,604 people on a land mass of 27,725,945,240 hectares. The area under crop cover is 147,662 hectares. For some time now, Karamoja has been the most food-insecure region of Uganda. This has been partly attributed to low productivity level of the crops due to intense droughts as well as pest and disease outbreaks. There are several NGOs that provide technical support as well as farm inputs to the farmers experiencing extremely low yields. The NGOs have been relying on very local sources of information in deciding on how to prioritize their activities. Such sources of information have often shared unreliable information to the NGOs and thus fail to have the true visibility of the overall state of Karamoja region. Therefore, this research seeks to develop an interactive visualization tool of the results of this first crop season. The dataset is categorised into shapefiles and tables. The shapefiles consist of the boundaries of Uganda Sub Counties and districts, and crop-type maps for maize and sorghum. The two tables available are yield and population per Sub County and per District. This data is sufficient to meet the study objective. The assumption is that the data is credible and the population is current. Through visualization, the study seeks to answer, among others, the following questions: What is the exact location of Karamoja region in Uganda on Map? Which districts have dedicated more land to farming of Maize and Sorghum? What percentage of the total yield production per Subcounty? Display visualization of crop yield and productivity of districts or/and sub counties using different tools (charts/graphs) What is the distribution of Yield in a Su …