by Carmen Calle | May 22, 2023 | Capacity Development, Caribbean, Climate Change, English, Events, Mangroves Monitoring, Trinidad and Tobago
The Caribbean nation finishes its first training program delivered by SERVIR-Amazonia. In 2021, SERVIR-Amazonia began a training program on the use of geospatial tools in five Caribbean countries: Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, and...
by Carmen Calle | May 16, 2023 | Brazil, English, Gender
Between April 11th and 13th, 2023, Júlia Niero and Heidi Buzato, from Imaflora, in partnership with Queren Luna from SIGMA/SEMAPI, conducted an online training event called “Empowering women through Geotechnology”, which was designed by women and offered...
by Carmen Calle | May 4, 2023 | Drought and Fire, English, Indigeneous People
A new study, published in IOP Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Health, reveals that Indigenous people in the Amazon Basin are twice as likely to die prematurely from smoke exposure due to wildfires than the broader South American population. Regions in...
by Carmen Calle | Apr 13, 2023 | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, English, Events, Peru
In March, a four-day collaborative meeting took place at the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT in Palmira, Colombia, that brought together in one place, the geographic information systems, and technology (GIS/GIT) specialists from the SERVIR-Amazonia...
by Carmen Calle | Apr 5, 2023 | English, Gender, Stakeholder engagement
On March 16, 2023, during the 67th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which focused on the inclusion of women in innovation and technology, the gender advisor to the SERVIR-Amazonia Program, Marina Irigoyen, participated with a lecture on...
