Maps (3 of 3)
ASE Amaro Small Scale Irrigation project & Zonal Boundaries Maps The final map that I made for AgriService was a visualization of the diversion weirs that ASE was constructing (see this post for more information). Wubishet, while planning

Maps (2 of 3)
Tsetse Fly Hotspot Mapping When I was finished with the Kereda Reservoir Map, I decided to set my sights on the Tsetse fly mapping. The data that I would need was with the ICIPE, so I needed to visit them before I could complete the maps (actually, I needed to get some of the data for the Reservoir project too). I set a meeting with the ICIPE (African Insect Science for Food and Health, www.icipe.org) , and within a few days I was off to their office on the east side of Addis. At the ICIPE office, we had a short meeting where I told Dr. Shiffa and

Maps! (1 of 3)
After the Amaro Field trip, I had an awful lot of work to do. I felt a bit like having a number of projects to do at once and then once massive term project on top of it. The next three post will go through the resulting maps, how I made them and the hurdles I faced along the way. So, on my list of things to do, I had to make a map for each of the Amaro projects that I had seen, finish up some blogs from Kenya and put together a five day, open source GIS course. Whew, lots to do! The work started slowly though, as to begin with I didn’t have an offic

Amaro and the South of Ethiopia (2 of 2)
Sunrise over the Gelana Valley On Wednesday I woke up at 6:30am ready to get on the road and begin another day in the field. I joined Wubishet, Solomon and Dr. Shiffa at the Landcruiser and we set off northwards towards Burji, a neighbouring woreda. Our mandate that morning was to visit the woreda office in Burji so that Solomon and Shiffa could get some information for a proposal they were working on (to expand the Tsestse trap program we had looked at the previous day) and also to visit an irrigation project ASE was establishing in

Amaro and the South of Ethiopia (1 of 2)
On Monday, August 28th, 2009, I woke at 7am, checked out of Hotel Desaleng on E.U. Road and hopped into a Toyota Landcruiser. I headed off to the AgriService Ethiopia offices to put my bags into storage, picked up some colleagues across Addis Ababa and begun a week long trip into the far south of the country. Ultimately we wanted to get to the AgriService Ethiopia (ASE) Amaro Program office, approximately 500km from Addis. This trip is approximately the same length as from Toronto, Ontario to Montreal, Quebec. The Toronto-Montreal trip takes just under five hours if you drive judiciously and refrain from stopping in Kingston (halfway). In stark