We're providing better evidence where field data are costly, delayed, or difficult to collect
Start a conversationGeoField is administered by AidData, a research lab at William & Mary. AidData provides the institutional home for the GeoField community of practice, coordinates convenings and learning activities, supports applied research and methods development, and helps maintain the initiative’s public-facing resources.
AidData’s role is both operational and strategic: maintaining the community infrastructure that allows GeoField partners to collaborate, while also helping advance the longer-term goal of building adaptable, reusable modeling systems for agricultural development and climate adaptation.
Over the past decade, AidData has conducted over two dozen Geospatial Impact Evaluations and managed grants nearly $10 million. (Officially $9,377,808.) These evaluations have assessed hundreds of millions of dollars worth of development finance.
Why GeoField matters
Climate-smart agriculture and adaptation programs are often implemented in places where field data are costly, delayed, incomplete, or difficult to collect. At the same time, funders and implementers need better ways to understand whether investments are changing agricultural practices, improving resilience, protecting land and water systems, and reaching the people and places they are intended to serve.
GeoField helps close that gap by translating long-term observations of climate, land use, water, crops, and agricultural practices into program-ready evidence.
What support can enable
With additional support, GeoField can help funders and implementers move from episodic learning toward more continuous insight on climate adaptation, agricultural productivity, and resilience.
Maintain and grow the GeoField community of practice.
Develop shared geospatial models, workflows, and practical guidance.
Support new use cases across crops, geographies, and intervention types.
Improve materials for funders, implementers, and non-specialist users.
Strengthen links between Earth observation, field data, and evaluation.
Support more timely insight on adaptation, productivity, and resilience.
We welcome conversations with funders, researchers, implementing organizations, geospatial practitioners, climate scientists, agronomists, economists, agricultural development organizations, and field partners interested in strengthening the evidence base for climate-smart agriculture and adaptation.
