by SERVIR Team | Feb 18, 2021 | APN, Capacity Development, English, MEL, Portuguese, Spanish
Geospatial capacity building is at the root of SERVIR’s mission. Strengthening the capacities in the region leverages our strategic approaches, namely, building strong partnerships to co-develop geospatial services and working with stakeholders in the use of those...
by SERVIR Team | Feb 15, 2021 | Deforestation, Ecosystem Management, English, Guyana, Portuguese, Spanish, Stakeholder engagement
Guyana coastal area. Photo credit: NAREI Mangrove forests make up much of the coast of Guyana and they are under threat from growing population and land-use change. Because much of the coast of Guyana is below sea level, the mangroves serve as a natural barrier...
by SERVIR Team | Feb 10, 2021 | English, Gender, Portuguese, Spanish
The figures from the report published in May 2020 by UN Women – United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women – entitled Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), are clear in suggesting...
by SERVIR Team | Jan 30, 2021 | APN, Brazil, Capacity Development, Drought and Fire, English, Spanish
Through the years, Amazon forests have been cut for timber extraction, mining and farming activities to support local, regional and national livelihoods. Meanwhile, the increasing environmental disturbances that the forest has suffered in these past years have been...
by SERVIR Team | Jan 29, 2021 | Ecosystem Management, Ecuador, English, Portuguese, Services, Spanish
Combatir la degradación de suelos en la Amazonía ecuatoriana es el compromiso que comparten el Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (MAG) de Ecuador, la Alianza de Bioversity International y el Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), y la Fundación...
