Landscape and Ecosystems Thematic Lead Interview -- Issifou Alfari
Issifou Alfari, Co-Chief of Party for AGRHYMET / SERVIR-West Africa, is profiled.
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Issifou Alfari, Co-Chief of Party for AGRHYMET / SERVIR-West Africa, is profiled.
Firewood and charcoal provide more than 80 percent of energy used in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the World Agroforestry Centre, with only a small volume produced sustainably.
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.
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.
This summer, Liza Goldberg, an intern at the NASA Goddard Biospheric Sciences Lab in Greenbelt, Maryland, spent seven days with the NASA SERVIR SCO to discuss potential uses of her mangrove monitoring tools with SERVIR scientists.
A new land cover tool originally developed for southeast Asia is now being expanded globally.
A blog posted by Spatial Informatics Group (SIG) describes ways that the new SERVIR-Amazonia hub will bring geospatial information to assist with sustainable development problems and natural resource protection for the Amazonia region.
Following the launch of the Regional Land Cover Monitoring System (RLCMS) in 2018, developers are releasing an upgraded version resulting from a collaborative effort between SERVIR-Mekong and SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya.
SERVIR is pleased to announce the release of the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Handbook: Comprehensive Methodologies for Forest Monitoring and Biomass Estimation.
Understanding the patterns and causes of forest loss over time is important for sustainable land management and for assisting in decision-making for policy and enforcement activities.