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SAGE 2024: SERVIR Amazonia Strengthens Cohesion and Sustainability in the Global Network
The SERVIR Amazonia team had a prominent participation in the SAGE 2024 event, from October 21 to 26 in the city of Marrakech, Morocco, a space designed by SERVIR Global to strengthen collaboration and energize the network of new and established teams. This key event...
A key platform for weather and fire forecasting in Ecuador
In collaboration with the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (INAMHI acronym in Spanish) and with the aim of improving Ecuador's capacity to deal with extreme hydrometeorological events, Fundación EcoCiencia, within the framework of the SERVIR Amazonia...
Imaflora participated in the GeoforGood Mini Summit 2024 event
Imaflora was present at the GeoforGood Mini Summit 2024 event to present the work ‘Integrating New Radar Data into Google Earth Engine (GEE) to Reveal Perennial Cultures in the Brazilian Amazon under the SERVIR-Amazonia Project’. Caroline Salomão, consultant for the...
Learning spaces about the work of SERVIR Amazonia
Delegates from the Marshall Space Flight Center-NASA, the Bioversity Alliance & CIAT visited the Amazon region as part of a key collaboration with the SERVIR Amazonia program, with the aim of learning about the strengthened local capacities in the use of advanced...
Ecuador at AmeriGEO Week 2024
Fundación EcoCiencia participated in “AmeriGEO Week 2024” from August 26 to 30 in Quito, Ecuador, an event that brings together diverse communities and establishes connections to foster collaboration between national, regional and international efforts in integrated...
Innovation in Information Systems for Traceability and Assurance of the Legal Origin of Wood
In the framework of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum APEC2024, Sidney Novoa, Director of GIS and Technologies for Conservation at Conservación Amazónica - ACCA, participated on August 12 in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) Workshop on...
Strengthening capacity in gender and social inclusion
From July 29 to August 2, the Gender and Social Inclusion Week (GESI) was held at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, located in Huntsville, Alabama (USA), to advance the integration of gender and social inclusion approaches in the SERVIR-Amazonia program projects....
Training Ecuador Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock on water erosion monitoring
Fundación EcoCiencia carried out the first phase of training for technicians from the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAG) within the framework of the SERVIR-Amazonia program, to conclude with the delivery of the Spatiotemporal Monitoring of Water Erosion (MEEH...
Mapping Common Ground for Farmers and Sustainability in the Amazon
By Lena Pransky It may seem like farming is the enemy when it comes to preventing deforestation in the Amazon—and with good reason. The expansion of large-scale farming and cattle ranching is a leading cause of deforestation. However, the role of small-scale farming...
SERVIR Amazonia II kick-off workshop in Lima
SERVIR-Amazonia II officially began operations at a workshop held in Lima between May 29 and 31. Representatives from the center, as well as from USAID and NASA, met to discuss the first activities to be implemented within the framework of the 2024 work plan. This...