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...
by Carmen Calle | Mar 6, 2023 | Brazil, English, Gender, Indigeneous People, Stakeholder engagement
By Heidi Buzato, Celma de Oliveira, Giulia Andrich and Natalia Molina. In the São Félix do Xingu municipality in the Brazilian Amazon, there is an association managed by women (AMPPF) that uses family labor to produce fruit pulp and cocoa from their agro-forests,...
by Carmen Calle | Feb 24, 2023 | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, English, Gender, Peru
According to recent UN data, women still represent only 28% of graduates globally in engineering and 40% in information technology and computing. This means a significant gender gap in STEM careers (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) exists, with only...