Fact Sheet: Online Mapping to Fight Illegal Mining in Ghana
This fact sheet highlights efforts to monitor illegal mining in Ghana.
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This fact sheet highlights efforts to monitor illegal mining in Ghana.
Ghana is home to some of the most biodiverse and carbon-dense forests in the world. But more than a third of them have been lost in recent decades.
This fact sheet highlights how SERVIR West Africa is supporting sustainable management in Burkina Faso through commune-level development planning.
The Support for Commune-Level Development Planning in Burkina Faso service is developing an information platform for monitoring of the physical occupation, land use, land cover, and spatial data infrastructure of commune-level administrative areas in Burkina Faso to support decision making related to sustainable management.
The crucial role forests play in our world cannot be underestimated. To enhance preservation and monitoring of this natural resource, SERVIR and SilvaCarbon launched a series of global workshops this year in West Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, Hindu-Kush Himalaya, and the Lower Mekong region on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications.
Issifou Alfari, Co-Chief of Party for AGRHYMET / SERVIR-West Africa, is profiled.
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.