SERVIR Women Scientists Build Resilience Around the World
USAID and NASA are supporting women scientists around the world to use science and technology to improve resilience and raise the visibility of women in science.
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USAID and NASA are supporting women scientists around the world to use science and technology to improve resilience and raise the visibility of women in science.
For many years, pastoralists in Northern Kenya have been affected by Opuntia stricta, an invasive cactus native to the Caribbean region and commonly referred to as prickly pear.
The Mekong Region Land Governance Project (MRLG), funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, featured land cover maps created by the SERVIR-Mekong team in their 2018 Mekong State of Land Report.
The extensive arid and semi-arid lands of northern Kenya are home to a variety of communities. Livelihoods are predominantly livestock based, with limited small-scale crop production. The productivity of the rangelands has been in decline, mainly due to poor management practices.
Vietnam experienced one of its worst droughts in almost a century from 2015 to 2016, affecting over 2 million people in 52 provinces nationwide. Ninh Thuan, a province in south central Vietnam with a population of just over 600,000, was severely affected.
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.
From 2014 to 2016, Vietnam experienced its worst drought in 90 years, with 52 out of the 63 provinces affected. This event and subsequent disasters emphasized the need for a reliable system that can provide forecast information about rainfall and drought.
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.
On March 23, as part of World Water Day under the theme Leaving No One Behind, SERVIR-Mekong convened a session on Earth Observations for Water Management at the Vietnam International Water Week in Hanoi, Vietnam.
|Wadee Deeprawat, SERVIR-Mekong/ADPC