Kai Sonder
@kaisonder.bsky.social
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Agricultural geographer, futurist, cyclist, zwifter, Member of Noodles, passionate coffee drinker
#30DayMapChallenge
- Day 26 - Transport Busiest airports by passenger traffic Atlanta takes the crown with 108 million in 2024 Data from
#wikipedia
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#ACI
about 2 hours ago
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Day 25 — Hexagons Cell tower distribution in UBER H3 hexagons level 5 in Mexico, Data from @opencellid through kaggle
1 day ago
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Day 24: Places and their names Locality names in Mexico between Religion and Revolution DATA from
@inegi.bsky.social
1 day ago
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– Day 23: Process
3 days ago
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Day 22: Natural Earth
4 days ago
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· Day 21 · Icons.
@cimmyt.bsky.social
's global presence but with icons
5 days ago
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Day 20: Water
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Just of the press from our colleagues at
@iwmi.bsky.social
water footprint of crops. Green and blue water consumption for maize
6 days ago
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Day 19: Projections
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Global maize production areas in Peirce quincuncial projection
7 days ago
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Day 18 — Out of this World One of the amazing things nowadays is open access to data, in this case from Mars thx to the @NASA MOLA mission (Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter). Places I've read about in many SF books I can now visit and visualize in 3D.
8 days ago
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Day 17
#30DayMapChallenge
New Tool
#KorayRender
RStudio 3D Map Simulator by @kryaclan
korayaclan.github.io/korayrender/
Great tool that helps you make 3D images of cities. Here parts of downtown Frankfurt where I used to go a lot as a teenager
9 days ago
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day 16: Cell Mexico 2020 wheat production area by UBER H3 level 5 cells Data @INEGI and @IFPRI SPAM
10 days ago
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Day 15 of the
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Fire. Burning of crop residues creates emissions. The map shows about 60k agricultural fires detected in 2024 by the NASA FIRMS program. Conservation agriculture as promoted by
@cimmyt.bsky.social
and FIRA use these crop residues to increase soil health and yields.
11 days ago
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Day 13 - 10 minute map Deforestation in Mexico 2001 to 2024 Data from Hansen et al, 2013, University of Maryland GLAD, Global Forrest Watch (GFW) and NASA
13 days ago
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In the year 2525, if man is still alive If woman can survive, they may find:
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— Day 12: Map of 2125
14 days ago
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Day 11: Minimal Sounds easy but it isn't.
15 days ago
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Day 10: Air The obvious one is air quality, annual PM2.5 particles from Wei et al., 2023 in Nature Communications. Interesting to see natural and human hot spots.
16 days ago
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Day 9 - Analog Time to cheat as I don't draw well enough to do analog National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI) topo map and 15 m elevation model off the place I work at
@cimmyt.bsky.social
17 days ago
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Day 8, Urban. Data from European Commission (JRC), Center for Integrated Earth System Information (CIESIN) and NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration, rendered with
#aerialod
Urban areas in Mexico
18 days ago
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Day 7 — Accessibility Distance to different sized towns
19 days ago
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Day 6 of
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: Dimensions Some countries pop up (USA, China, Brazil), some stay almost the same (Mexico, Turkey) some disappear (Australia UK). 2023 maize production as a cartogram. Thx to
@fao.org
stat and Gastner et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci (2018) online tool.
20 days ago
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– Day 5: Earth Given the importance of these, global occurrence of rare earth elements according to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the great hashtag#rayrender package in R.
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21 days ago
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Day4: My Data/Our Data Use of cost distance grids to review and plan for improved accessibility of farmers in Central Mexico to conservation agriculture machinery for climate change adaptation and more regenerative farming practices within
@cimmyt.bsky.social
MasAgro initiative.
22 days ago
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Day 3 - Polygons While Mexico is still recovering from several years of drought, here is how 2024 looked like. Great drought data from @conagua_mx and inspiration from ESRI's @John_M_Nelson
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23 days ago
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Day 2: Lines OSM and
hanshack.com/figureground...
24 days ago
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Day 1: Points Volcanoes in abundance Data ESRI and Global Volcanism Program, Pacific Data Hub
25 days ago
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reposted by
Kai Sonder
International Food Policy Research Institute
4 months ago
🍽️ 🌍🌐This new book, edited by Keith Wiebe and Elisabetta Gotor, presents a collection of short chapters on the current state of knowledge about different aspects of the future of food systems: 📘
www.ifpri.org/ifpri-book/w...
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www.ifpri.org/event/what-d...
@cgiar.org
@bioversityciat.bsky.social
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Every year
@cimmyt.bsky.social
wheat breeders send out the new nurseries with high yield potential and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses for testing to many collaborators in the world both in the public and private sector. Rendered in R with
#rayrender
by
@tylermw.com
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7 months ago
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www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Global corn area from 1960 to 2030: patterns, trends and implications | The Journal of Agricultural Science | Cambridge Core
Global corn area from 1960 to 2030: patterns, trends and implications
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-agricultural-science/article/global-corn-area-from-1960-to-2030-patterns-trends-and-implications/C317257D617ED71770ED699A2221B594#supplementary-materials
8 months ago
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www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
8 months ago
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reposted by
Kai Sonder
Nature Portfolio
9 months ago
A study in Nature Food assesses the future climatic suitability of global croplands for 30 major food crop types, quantifying the changes in potential food crop diversity given climate conditions across four global warming levels.
https://go.nature.com/3Dp5LEk
#foodstudies
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Integrated approaches to maximizing
#maize
resistance to fall armyworm
#CIMMYT
#USDA
www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/...
9 months ago
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Want a side of CO₂ with that? Better food labels help us choose more climate-friendly foods Carbon footprint of what you eat
theconversation.com/want-a-side-...
9 months ago
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Dude, where is my democracy
9 months ago
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Mapped: How extreme weather is destroying crops around the world
lnkd.in/eR_cfand
9 months ago
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Data-driven strategies to improve nitrogen use efficiency of rice farming in South Asia How to reduce emissions while staying productive through use of modern technolgies @cimmyt @IRRI
@cgiar.org
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
10 months ago
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And then suddenly you yearn for the peace and quiet of the covid pandemic
10 months ago
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Adoption of improved crop varieties limited biodiversity losses, terrestrial carbon emissions, and cropland expansion in the tropics The value of the
#cgiar
breeding programs beyond higher yields
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
10 months ago
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reposted by
Kai Sonder
@PrometheusGreen
10 months ago
Adoption of improved (GMO) crop varieties limited biodiversity losses, terrestrial carbon emissions, and cropland expansion in the tropics
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Adoption of improved crop varieties limited biodiversity losses, terrestrial carbon emissions, and cropland expansion in the tropics | PNAS
Research investments in crop improvements, including by national and international agricultural research centers, have made significant contributio...
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2404839122
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Why biodiversity matters in agriculture and food systems
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Image Jonas frei
11 months ago
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#30DayMapChallenge
, Day 30, The Final Map. The Final map takes me to the beginning. The place I was born at: Hospital Amazonico in Yarina-Cocha, Peru from Sentinel 2 as Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) image. Copernicus Browser and Overture
12 months ago
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Day 29 Data: Overture Pity there are no building heights for the town of Campeche but at least easy access to this huge data set in Qgis thx to
@gishub.org
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lfV...
12 months ago
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- Day 28: The Blue Planet GEBCO data and aerialod at it's best
12 months ago
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- Day 28: The Blue Planet
12 months ago
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· Day 27 · Micromapping As I just found out we can do 3D mapping stuff without having to buy an expensive phone with LIDAR I decided to try the app Luma. Impressive yet need to practice a bit more with making the video for the data.
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12 months ago
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· Day 25 · Heat Crop residue burning in Guanajuato state, Mexico. Time to switch to conservation agriculture systems for climate smarter agriculture, carbon sequestration and less emissions Was supposed to be a gif animation but X didn't like the format.
about 1 year ago
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- Day 26: Projections Always wanted to do Spilhaus so here it goes Global maize areas 2020 (SPAM IFPRI) Template of course John Nelson, ESRI
about 1 year ago
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Day24 - Only Circular shapes. Nr of Maize landraces per cell in Mexico Data from CONABIO and INEGI Didn't cheat, country also consists of small circular shapes
about 1 year ago
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Day 23: Memory Remembering the many generations of farmers that started to domesticate
#wheat
over 10,000 years ago Holdings of CIMMYT's wheat genebank
about 1 year ago
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Day 21: Conflict A day late a buck short Given I was in Sinaloa yesterday
about 1 year ago
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