What is SAGDA Notes?

Join us at SAGDA Notes — where data meets African agriculture.

SAGDA Notes is the official Substack publication of the Synthetic Agriculture Data for Africa (SAGDA) project. It is a space where we document our progress, share insights, and build an open community around data-driven innovation in African agriculture.

SAGDA is an open-source initiative tackling the widespread challenge of agricultural data scarcity across the continent. Through synthetic data generation, augmentation, and simulation, we empower researchers, agribusinesses, and decision-makers to design smarter, more resilient agricultural systems. The SAGDA Python library offers tools to simulate climate records, soil profiles, crop yield time series, fertilizer recommendations, and more — all tailored to African agroecological realities.

SAGDA Notes offers a front-row seat into the heart of this work. Here, you’ll find technical walkthroughs, research summaries, dataset releases, reflections from the field, and open discussions around the future of agricultural AI in Africa.

The team behind SAGDA is composed of PhD researchers, data scientists, and domain experts with backgrounds in computer science, agronomy, soil science and technology, and economics. Based at the College of Computing at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), the team combines academic rigor with a deep commitment to open science and real-world impact.

We invite you to follow our journey, explore the tools we’re building, and contribute to the broader mission: bridging Africa’s agricultural data gaps with synthetic data solutions.