by SERVIR Team | Dec 6, 2021 | Brazil, Capacity Development, Ecosystem Management, English, Indigeneous People, Peru, Services
When Stephanie Spera talks about her work with the Applied Science Team that she is leading on “Quantifying the Effects of Forest Changes on Provisioning and Regulating Ecosystem Services” in the Southwestern Amazon, she mentions two motivations. The first,...
by SERVIR Team | Dec 2, 2021 | Capacity Development, Ecosystem Management, English, Peru, Portuguese, Spanish
Peruvian government institutions recently requested the SERVIR Amazonia program to improve its capabilities in processing satellite images for monitoring changes in land cover. In this sense, the Program offered training on the Google Earth Engine platform (GEE), an...
by SERVIR Team | Nov 12, 2021 | APN, Brazil, Capacity Development, Deforestation, Ecosystem Management, Ecuador, English, Portuguese, Services, Spanish
Ver los resúmenes anteriores: Sesión 1: “Voluntarios Digitales” Sesión 2: “Tecnología geoespacial y pueblos indígenas” Sesión 3: “Herramientas para agilizar la toma de decisión sobre el manejo territorial” Introducción al mapeo participativo Carolina de Carvalho...
by SERVIR Team | Oct 13, 2021 | Capacity Development, Climate Change, Ecosystem Management, English, Hydro-climatic disasters, Portuguese, Spanish, Stakeholder engagement
La colaboración busca el mejoramiento de predicciones hidrometeorológicas y monitoreo de ecosistemas de manglar en Ecuador El Centro Internacional para la Investigación del Fenómeno de El Niño, (CIIFEN), la Alianza de Bioversity International y el Centro Internacional...
by SERVIR Team | Oct 6, 2021 | Brazil, Deforestation, Ecosystem Management, English, Gender, Services
Native women extractivists and farmers in the Amazon work with a diverse array of products. They harvest chestnuts, babassu, extract oils, produce cassava flour, fruit pulp, plant cocoa, pepper, produce handicrafts and cultivate many other types of food in their...
by SERVIR Team | Jul 27, 2021 | Ecosystem Management, English, Guyana, Mangroves Monitoring
Mangroves retain carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. They can store up to 10 times more carbon than land-based forests and are estimated to capture and store 34 million tons of carbon globally. Mangroves protect the lives of inhabitants of coastal areas from floods,...
