We had a meeting with staff of the Urban Development Authority. They have gathered a huge amount of GIS data on the area surrounding the Saaraketha farm (even getting information about the individual trees that are available in the area), and have done a wonderful job using this data to model the environment. I think that there is power in that data set because it has been supplemented with a qualitative survey of the farmers that live in these areas. This will allow the project to eventually identify very specific needs within the environment.
There are some technical hurdles that need to be overcome - for example, making the huge amount of data that has been collected easily searched - but those hurdles can be overcome with time, patience and technical support. I have every confidence that this will happen.
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