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My name is Catherine Nakalembe, and I monitor 
crops from space, working with farmers around  the world.

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We combine satellite images with ground data, extract this information into informational products 

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that are useful for decision makers 
to ensure that people who might be impacted  

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by extreme events, like droughts or floods, still have access to food at the end of the growing season.

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 It's a lot of fun. There's a lot  of learning, but it is also really rewarding to  

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see how hard and strong people work in order 
to survive. It is also incredibly challenging  

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in the sense that it keeps you on your toes. It 
keeps you thinking. It gets you to want to solve  

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things. It gets you to want to help other 
people.

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I grew up in Uganda, and maybe 70 or 80 percent of the people here are smallholder farmers.

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And you would find a person working on their field every day, 

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and it was almost always guaranteed that that field was going to fail.  

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In 2021 with all the capabilities, all the data, 
all the information, all the resources that are  

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being put into ensuring people don't go to bed 
hungry, we need to do things a little bit better  

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and make it sustainable, lucrative, profitable.

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So I love hiking. I love taking photographs. I always like that part -- that kind of brings me out in nature.

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As we travel to collect data, as we travel to do training,

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I learned so much in that process, and I found that the meaning for my work is more clear when I interact with more 
people.

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And I really love that about my work.

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