First fruits - Blogabond

This week I've been finishing up both the work here at Iracambi and the project I've been continuing to work on remotely for Yanapuma. Got some great news a few days ago that the grant proposal I wrote for Yanapuma was approved! This will pay for many thousands of dollars worth of GIS software and training materials for Yanapuma to continue the mapping project in Bua and to develop maps for the other communities they work with.

Also earlier this week I received the map data I was waiting for to complete the Bua map. Finished the map, which can be opened in a free program called ArcReader and allows a user to interactively explore and query the underlying map data, for example crop types, family names and areas of parcels.

At Iracambi, the new GIS coordinator arrived on Wednesday so we have a few days of overlap for me to transfer what I've observed, learned and managed to accomplish here before I leave. Made some progress with the reforestation map and cleaning up the data organization on their computer network. Also learned more about the agricultural and economic situation here and the lives of some of the local families. The reforestation plan, of which the map is a part, includes agroforestry areas to be used for experimentation and demonstration to producers in the surrounding communities.

I feel blessed to have this success and completion of the work I initiated within the past 5 months. After some setbacks, it's been encouraging.

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cjones on May 31, 2008 from Rosario da Limeira, Brazil

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