CAMP Alatoo Pasture Monitoring
Mobile appl for real-time monitoring and assessment of pasture condition and rangeland vegetation
Description
CAMP Alatoo Pasture Monitoring is a mobile application designed to support pasture committees and forestry staff in Kyrgyzstan with real-time monitoring and assessment of pasture condition and rangeland vegetation. The app enables digital data collection on productivity, species composition, and degradation, with instant upload to a central server for analysis, archiving, and forecasting. The solution supports sustainable land management, disaster risk reduction, and improved decision-making for food security and rural livelihoods.
Technology
Pasture Monitoring is an Android mobile application that enables users to record field data on pasture vegetation cover and pasture yield and link observations to mapped locations. Collected data can be stored on the device and, when internet connectivity is available, transmitted to a server for review by experts involved in pasture assessment and management. The application is currently tested by pasture committees and forestry enterprises in selected districts of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Target
The main users of the app are pasture committees, forestry staff, and smallholder farmers in Kyrgyzstan. The app is used for annual monitoring, pasture rotation planning, and community-based land management.
Business model
The app is fully free to use, developed and maintained with donor support (GIZ), and available for download by all users, especially smallholder farmers and local authorities.
Impact
The app is intended to make pasture-condition data available to expert reviewers and to bodies responsible for pasture policy, with the aim of informing strategies to improve pasture conditions.
Partners
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH; Ministry of Agriculture of Kyrgyzstan;
Four Betters
Better environment
Better production
