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  "title": "Understanding Agricultural Output in Mozambique: Using remote sensing to initiate a discussion on development",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, January 17, 2025",
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  "summary": "This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the agricultural land coverage in Mozambique by harnessing advanced remote sensing technologies and draws on successful agricultural development examples to propose strategic pathways for Mozambique.",
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      "heading": "Methodology and primary finding",
      "content": "- Remote sensing data used: Sentinel-2 satellite imagery.\n- Analytical approach: Sentinel-2 imagery coupled with a machine learning algorithm to map and assess agricultural land.\n- Primary quantitative finding: Agriculture accounts for only 12 percent of Mozambique's land area.\n- Contribution: Demonstrates how emerging technologies like remote sensing can inform assessments of agricultural state-of-affairs."
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      "heading": "Comparative analysis: agricultural transformation (\"green revolution\")",
      "content": "- Approach: Examines the agricultural transformation or “green revolution” experienced by some countries to distill regularities and necessary conditions.\n- Purpose: Compare identified regularities and necessary conditions from other countries’ experiences to the state-of-affairs in Mozambique."
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      "heading": "Insights on bottlenecks and development pathways",
      "content": "- The study identifies concrete bottlenecks likely holding back Mozambique’s agricultural development (specific bottlenecks are described in the paper).\n- The paper draws on successful agricultural development examples to propose strategic pathways for Mozambique."
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      "content": "- Subject: Agricultural commodities, Agricultural production, Agricultural sector, Commodities, Economic sectors, Food security, Population and demographics, Poverty, Production\n- 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\n\nSource: 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.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Working Paper\n  - Working Paper (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Working Paper (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2025/01/17/understanding-agricultural-output-in-mozambique-using-remote-sensing-to-initiate-a-561053"
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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",
    "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.",
    "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.",
    "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: 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",
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