Patrick-Munyao/Food-Security-Monitoring-Tool-for-Karamoja-Uganda---Tableau

Food Security Monitoring Tool for Karamoja Region of Uganda. # Food Security Monitoring Tool - Karamoja: Uganda This repository contains an analysis assessing and visualizing the food security situation in the Karamoja region of Uganda. The study focuses on the two main staple crops of the region (i.e. sorghum and maize). 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. The analysis will make it possible to develop a new food security monitoring tool to show visibility of the overall state of the region and offer reliable sources of information to guide decisions on matters prioritization of activities by NGOs giving technical support to the region’s farmers. Tableau software will be used to make this possible. # Project Description 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 …