by Simone Staiger | Mar 7, 2022 | Brazil, Capacity Development, Deforestation, Drought and Fire, English, Portuguese, Services, Spanish, Stakeholder engagement
With the participation of USAID and NASA a new Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between the State Secretariat for Environmental Development (SEDAM-Rondônia) , Brazil, and the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical...
by Simone Staiger | Apr 16, 2020 | APN, Capacity Development, English, Portuguese, Spanish
The Amazon Basin, one of the planet’s most precious environmental reserves, is under threat from adverse human activities and a changing climate. The resulting forest loss, increasingly contaminated water, and exposure of local communities to unprecedented fires and...
by Simone Staiger | Apr 13, 2020 | Drought and Fire, English
By Kátia Fernandes, Assistant Professor of Geosciences, University of Arkansas –> Visit the interactive mapping tool Fires in the Amazon are the result of human activities that usually begin with deforestation to clear the land for the introduction of...
by Simone Staiger | Apr 7, 2020 | Deforestation, English, Peru, Services
At the recent global knowledge exchange of SERVIR, Sydney Novoa, Project Manager for SERVIR-Amazonia at Conservación Amazónica (ACCA) Peru, and Foster Mensah, Executive Director at the Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Services (CERSGIS) in Ghana...
by Simone Staiger | Mar 30, 2020 | Ecuador, English, Stakeholder engagement
Citizen participation, a priority for attendants to the workshop Download the workshop report in PDF (only available in Spanish) Read this post in Spanish On 9 and 10 March 2020, the “Consultation about the Needs of the SERVIR-Amazonia Program Users” workshop was held...
