by SERVIR Team | May 20, 2020 | Capacity Development, Deforestation, Ecosystem Management, English, Guyana, Services
Agrilinks, the online knowledge sharing hub on development topics related to resilience, food security and poverty reduction, is part of the U.S. Government’s Feed the Future initiative. Agrilinks just featured a blog post written by Glenn Hyman (Spatial...
by SERVIR Team | May 5, 2020 | APN, Capacity Development, English, Portuguese, Spanish
On May 5, 2020 the Academic Partner Network (APN) hold its first Webinar. Since the invitation was launched, 76 interested participants signed up for this network, and 53 joined the webinar today. The webinar featured two speakers: Kátia Fernandes, Climate Scientist...
by SERVIR Team | Apr 29, 2020 | APN, English, Gender, Portuguese, Spanish
Download the full announcement in English Spanish Portuguese Context SERVIR-Amazonia seeks to understand better how women and indigenous populations have/are being integrated into development and science projects, policies and activities in the region. The purpose is...
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...
