Experiences in Designing a Mobile GIS Mapping Tool for Rural Farmers in Ghana

Experiences in Designing a Mobile GIS Mapping Tool for Rural Farmers in Ghana, Chakraborty, S., Tong, T., Chen, J., Aman, A., Mufti, T., Nyarko, Y., & Subramanian, L. (2013, December). In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development, (p. 28). ACM.

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 been conventionally gathered by legions of field workers…In this paper, we describe our experience designing and implementing an Android mobile application (app) that is capable of building GPS food production maps of a region.

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