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 | Aug 2, 2021 | Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, English, Events, Gender, Indigeneous People, Spanish
In the interest of understanding the experiences and perspectives of indigenous women leaders of the Amazon, we propose a conversation with 5 prominent representatives of different countries of the Amazon. The webinar aims at discussing how they have managed to face...
by SERVIR Team | Jun 28, 2021 | APN, Capacity Development, English, Gender, Portuguese, Spanish
SERVIR-Amazonia and partners invited to a virtual webinar to discover the leadership vision of women in environment & geospatial fields. More than 50 leaders and aspiring leaders joined an online conversation on June 23, 2021 and learned from women who are playing...
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 | Nov 11, 2020 | English, Gender, Portuguese, Spanish
When she joined the Instituto de Manejo Florestal e Agrícola (IMAFLORA) almost 20 years ago, the young engineer and master in tropical forest management could not imagine that she would be in charge of one of the most important projects for the valorization of...
by SERVIR Team | Oct 17, 2020 | English, Gender, Portuguese, Spanish
NASA’s Earth Science Applied Sciences Program featured SERVIR-Amazonia’s Africa Flores whose award-winning career was recently recognized in the “Breakthrough Women in Science” video series of Science Friday. Africa Flores is the land cover...
