Utilising geospatial data analysis to enhance school meals and regenerative agriculture interventions
savdysard
Oct 30, 2025
1 min read
Defining the socio-ecological landscape in four countries
This policy brief uses geospatial data to analyse challenges and opportunities for linking school meals programmes (SMPs) and regenerative agriculture (RA) interventions in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, and Rwanda. It maps key socio-ecological variables—including population density, biodiversity threats, agroecological zones, farm size, water risk, land degradation, poverty levels, and school attendance—to gain insights into food production demand and supply barriers. The geospatial analysis suggests that environmental and social crises often overlap in specific "hotspot" regions and the most food-productive rural areas frequently suffer from the highest poverty. The brief concludes that identifying these hotspots is a critical first step to developing more impactful interventions. It sets the baseline for sub- sequent analysis which will quantify the theoretical capacity of those agricultural systems to ensure healthy diets to the local population.
