Syria EM | Agricultural Productivity Analysis

[Holly-Transport]

*An update of existing analysis*

· Maps of Percent Change in Crop Yields, Temperature, and Rainfall (or drought), by governorate and areas of control: first 8 months of 2024 v.s. first 8 months of 2023; 2023 v.s. 2022

Revised requirements based on call with Luan - they want to replicate what was done in Niger. https://datapartnership.org/niger-economic-monitoring/reports/agriculture/report.htm

[SahitiSarva]

Minutes from 15th October call: First draft check-in

Agriculture: @Isha957

• They want 'Anomaly Hotspots of Agricultural Production'.
• There are articles that show that productivity declined compared to last year -- why?

**Northeast Syria – Sunday, 14 July 2024 –**The SRTF is thrilled to announce this year’s average wheat yield of 3.53 MT per hectare (HA) in Northeast Syria, following the end of the harvest season under the intervention, "Agricultural Support to Farmers in Ar-Raqqa Governorate – Phase VII".

https://reliefweb.int/report/syrian-arab-republic/srtfs-agricultural-support-yields-notable-results-northeast-syria-bountiful-wheat-production-and-improved-livelihoods-ar-raqqa-governorate#:~:text=**Northeast%20Syria%20%E2%80%93%20Sunday%2C%2014,Raqqa%20Governorate%20%E2%80%93%20Phase%20VII%22.
The SRTF's Agricultural Support Yields Notable Results in Northeast Syria: Bountiful Wheat Production and Improved Livelihoods in Ar-Raqqa Governorate - Syrian Arab Republic
News and Press Release in English on Syrian Arab Republic about Food and Nutrition; published on 14 Jul 2024 by SRTF

[SahitiSarva]

• Change the color range for temperature to be blue to red and not the other way around

[SahitiSarva]

@Isha957 they mentioned that they really liked Benny's charts and would like for them to be replicated. I believe they're on QGIS. Could you spend some time looking at how those charts were created to see if we can replicate them/

[SahitiSarva]

@Isha957 to add details about EVI used for Sudan EVI analysis to a README file that can also be used in this context.

[SahitiSarva]

Notes from 11th November call @Isha957

• Change the map legend to show the yellow color (currently there is no yellow in the map legend but there is a yellow on the map)
• Graph titles need to be updated
• Extend the data for 2024 in all the relevant charts
• What is the crop season?
• We need to remove the methodology example
• Check why the map is green in the middle where there is no cropland at all.
• Make static maps using matplotlib which does not show other countries at all.
• Write some text around how conflict is not a causation for EVI
• We can remove the conflict and EVI component.
• Make the drought charts slightly smaller so they're visible in one screen tile
• Show comparable averages for 2024.
• Better chart titles and subtitles clarifying the data
• Show a map that shows difference in crop land
• Joanne to send out a box with environmental analysis that we use to inform the analysis for that box

Local information -

• Crops got better in 2024 according to other sources
• Growing season starts November - June. Harvest itself occurs in June.
• There is a different dataset that Joanne used which shows that mean rainfall is higher in 2024 than in 2023

[SahitiSarva]

Notes from 25th November call

• Please fix the titles to show that we only have 8 months of data
• Clean up the notebook
• Compare only the first 10 months of 2024 with the first 10 months of the rest
• Change the landcover maps to show difference from 2010 till 2025. (March 2011 the conflict started)
• Show two charts showing cropland change from the two different datasources