Enhancing Drought Resilience in Vietnam
Droughts in the Lower Mekong region cause significant environmental and economic impacts, including loss in agricultural productivity and decreased food and water security.
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Droughts in the Lower Mekong region cause significant environmental and economic impacts, including loss in agricultural productivity and decreased food and water security.
Enhancing Anticipatory Actions for Disaster and Climate Resilience aims to reduce the loss of lives and damage to properties and crops from floods and droughts by improving early warnings using satellite data and geospatial information.
When irrigation isn't available, it's important to know when to expect rain. But with changes to our climate, farmers in West Africa can no longer count on a predictable weather. To mitigate this, SERVIR West Africa works with AGRHYMET to improve access to reliable weather and crop forecasts.
|Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
The Forecasting Seasonal to Sub-seasonal Fire and Agricultural Risk from Drought service provides information for evaluating drought conditions at temporal and spatial resolution to predict fire vulnerability in the Amazon basin.
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.