RCMRD team members interviewed on Kenya TV program
RCMRD’s Lilian Wangui, Food Security and Agriculture Lead, and Rose Waswa, Remote Sensing Technician, were interviewed on a Kenyan national TV channel on August 15.
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RCMRD’s Lilian Wangui, Food Security and Agriculture Lead, and Rose Waswa, Remote Sensing Technician, were interviewed on a Kenyan national TV channel on August 15.
SERVIR hubs are at the forefront in developing high-quality water information, tools, products, and services that enable partner countries to monitor, measure, and report on water resources and changes, and to better predict and manage water-related disasters.
The ability to transform data into actionable information and obtain easily accessible, analysis-ready Earth observation (EO) data is often a critical missing link for decision makers in the developing world.
ICIMOD, under its SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) and Climate Services for Resilient Development (CSRD) Initiatives, is collaborating with technical organizations in the United States and meteorological and agricultural institutions in the HKH to establish a regional agricultural drought monitoring and early warning system.
SERVIR's service planning approach brings partners, stakeholders, and end users into the design process from the very beginning, even before solutions are discussed.
The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is no stranger to water- and weather-induced hazards. Every year, these disasters result in loss of lives, livelihoods, and damage to infrastructure throughout HKH countries.
A single desert locust can consume its body weight in vegetation in one day. When 40 million of them gather, they can devour as much food as 35,000 people.
The SERVIR program, launched in 2005, connects NASA, U.S. researchers, a network of development partners around the world, and companies like Google to harness the power of satellite observations — helping countries see, with greater clarity, how their environments affect well-being and safety.
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) has been implementing the SERVIR-HKH Initiative — one of five regional hubs of the SERVIR network — in its Regional Member Countries, prioritizing capacity building and science activities in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan.
Wheat is one of Afghanistan's largest agricultural products, yet current production levels fail to meet increasing demand, and wheat remains one of the nation's biggest imports.
|Megan Kirchner, Communications Intern for the NASA SERVIR Science Coordination Office