Catherine Nakalembe

There's like that kind of like mismatch.

But then the other thing is, even with what we have, there's so much that we can do.

So knowing a drought is coming,

It's so powerful because you would know whether, well, is it worth me planting this season?

I don't have an irrigation system, so maybe I shouldn't do anything.

It's going to be terrible anyways.

So you don't waste your energy.

You don't buy or pay for labor.

You don't buy seeds.

You don't put them in the ground for nothing.

So that's one side of it.

But it could also tell you that maybe in this area, generally, there's been droughts continuously.

We should really invest in some irrigation infrastructure.

And so being able to come from what we measure and predict and learn over time and connecting it to we should have irrigation infrastructure here and that irrigation infrastructure arrives, whole different story.

This is a fascinating question.

I'm in different places that give me different contexts.

So it helps me understand a little bit better what the perception is on one side to make it relevant on the other side.

Everything is connected in some sense.

And so I want to kind of give an example of why these different contexts matter so much.

So