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.
Users of Collect Earth Online (CEO) around the world are taking advantage of a CEO feature called the Geo-Dash Degradation Tool that allows them to monitor forest degradation, a major source of carbon emissions.
Rwanda is among the smallest countries in mainland Africa, roughly the size of Maryland with twice the population. Less land area means harder decisions, such as balancing land allocated for agriculture versus areas designated for forest conservation.
The Mapping with Radar in Imbabura service brings Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and other remote sensing resources to map land cover of the province of Imbabura in Ecuador.
The Monitoring Forest Dynamics to Enable Biodiversity Conservation in the Amazon service - now completed - helped introduce "TerraBio," a monitoring tool to assess the impact of private sector engagement on biodiversity conservation in the Amazon.
Collect Earth Online is a custom built, open-source, satellite image viewing and interpretation system developed by SERVIR, FAO, and other partners as a tool for use in projects that require land cover and/or land use data.
To sustainably manage forest landscapes, governments and decision makers need accurate and up-to-date information on the extent of the forests they manage and the ways they are changing.
The Charcoal Production Site Monitoring Service is a web-based platform for visualizing the spatial distribution of charcoal production sites, thereby facilitating forest degradation monitoring in the study areas.
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.
This service supports Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR), is a low-cost land restoration technique used to combat poverty, hunger, and Sahara desert encroachments amongst low-income farmers by increasing ecosystem services; and resilience to climate extremes.