Understanding Agricultural Output in Mozambique: Using remote sensing to initiate a discussion on development
IMF Working Papers, January 17, 2025
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- Authors: Kelsee Bratley, Alexis Meyer-Cirkel
- Published: January 17, 2025
- Series: IMF Working Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798229000628.001
Methodology and primary finding
- Remote sensing data used: Sentinel-2 satellite imagery.
- Analytical approach: Sentinel-2 imagery coupled with a machine learning algorithm to map and assess agricultural land.
- Primary quantitative finding: Agriculture accounts for only 12 percent of Mozambique's land area.
- Contribution: Demonstrates how emerging technologies like remote sensing can inform assessments of agricultural state-of-affairs.
Comparative analysis: agricultural transformation ("green revolution")
- Approach: Examines the agricultural transformation or “green revolution” experienced by some countries to distill regularities and necessary conditions.
- Purpose: Compare identified regularities and necessary conditions from other countries’ experiences to the state-of-affairs in Mozambique.
Insights on bottlenecks and development pathways
- The study identifies concrete bottlenecks likely holding back Mozambique’s agricultural development (specific bottlenecks are described in the paper).
- The paper draws on successful agricultural development examples to propose strategic pathways for Mozambique.
Subject areas and keywords
- Subject: Agricultural commodities, Agricultural production, Agricultural sector, Commodities, Economic sectors, Food security, Population and demographics, Poverty, Production
- Keywords: accuracy assessment, Agricultural commodities, agricultural development, agricultural land usage, Agricultural production, Agricultural sector, area estimation, Food security, Global, greenrevolution, Mozambique, poverty alleviation, remote sensing, remote sensing technology, satellite imagery
Source: IMF Working Papers — "Understanding Agricultural Output in Mozambique: Using remote sensing to initiate a discussion on development" by Kelsee Bratley and Alexis Meyer-Cirkel, January 17, 2025.
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