Locust Monitoring
The primary objective of the P-Locust service is to enhance the monitoring and prevention efforts against locust population growth.
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The primary objective of the P-Locust service is to enhance the monitoring and prevention efforts against locust population growth.
The Mapping Soil Fertility in Ecuador service, in collaboration with the Ecuadorian Ministry of Agriculture, generated high-resolution (30 m) digital soil maps of key nutrients for agricultural development.
The Regional Cropland Assessment and Monitoring Service seeks to provide timely information for food security assessments through the development of national and regional crop monitors in East Africa.
Agriculture is critically important in Africa, where about 70 percent of the people depend on farming and other rural activities for their livelihoods. Unfortunately, increasing population pressures are degrading and reducing land and water resources, and hindering agricultural productivity.
Agriculture is the backbone of economies in East African countries such as Tanzania. To succeed they need more information about droughts and dry spells, yet getting that information to farmers remains a challenge.
Working in developing countries around the world, SERVIR seeks to incorporate regional knowledge and perspectives to best meet end user needs in addressing issues such as flood forecasting, forest fire management, landslide hazard, agricultural monitoring, and biomass estimation.
RCMRD hosted a training event called “Satellite Based Frost Mapping and Monitoring using MODIS Data" on 23-24 July 2015.
|James Wanjohi, Eastern & Southern Africa/RCMRD
Kenya ranks third in the world in yearly tea production. Susan Malaso Kotikot, a native of Kenya who came to the U.S. a year and a half ago to accept a graduate research assistantship and work with SERVIR, wants to help mitigate crop damage by frost – and protect the livelihoods of many Kenyans.
Remote districts of Western Nepal are experiencing what some claim is their worst drought in 40 years. Analyses prepared by the International Center for Integrated Mountain Development are helping the Government of Nepal evaluate the situation and make critical decisions about how to respond.
With a growing population, increased demand for agricultural land and fuel wood are depleting Africa's forests.