Out in Front: How SERVIR's Locally Led Development is Driving Climate Action
Much of the world is already experiencing the negative effects of climate change, and it is disproportionately impacting the world's most marginalized populations.
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Much of the world is already experiencing the negative effects of climate change, and it is disproportionately impacting the world's most marginalized populations.
The Invasive Species Mapper is a citizen-science smartphone app that crowdsources invasive species detection to give managers information on their current extent and spread.
The Kenya tea industry supports 10 percent of Kenya's population, around 3 million families. The industry is prone to damage by frost due to the altitudes in which it is grown.
Through a partnership between SERVIR Eastern & Southern Africa and the Kenya Ministry of Agriculture, a new satellite-based crop mapping system and sampling methodology was developed to streaml
Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture is collaborating with USAID and NASA to use satellite tools that expand their understanding of the climate-related challenges that farmers are facing.
|Lena Pransky and Jacob Ramthun, NASA Science Coordination Office
Through SERVIR, USAID and NASA play a key role in supporting the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE). Our work was recently highlighted in the new White House publication “Helping the World PREPARE: A Primer on U.S. International Adaptation and Resilience.”
Community-based Flood Early Warning Systems (CBFEWS) demonstrate the power of demand-driven climate adaptation and its ability to deliver real impacts that save lives and protect livelihoods.
|Erica Kriner, Dorah Nesoba
The Web has changed every aspect of our lives, from daily events to professional undertakings such as work related activities. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) – tools that enable us to manipulate the geographic aspects of data – have also been affected by web technology.
|Patrick Kabatha, RCMRD/SERVIR
This guide was developed to accompany the materials provided for the SERVIR AST funded project, "Forest carbon assessment for REDD+ in East Africa SERVIR region."
These training materials provide an introduction to the Ensemble Framework for Flash Flood Forecasting (EF5) system developed by the SERVIR Applied Sciences Team.