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SERVIR Global
SERVIR—the Regional Visualization and Monitoring System—helps government officials, managers, scientists, researchers, students, and the general public make decisions by providing Earth observations and predictive models based on data from orbiting satellites.
USAID Environment and Global Climate Change
In just 60 years, the world’s population has accelerated from 2.5 billion people to 7 billion people today. By 2050, another 2 billion will join our planet—mostly in developing countries—increasing the rapidly growing demand for our planet’s resources. Threatening to…
WRIInsights – Learning from African Farmers: How “Re-greening” Boosts Food Security; Curbs Climate Change
Re-greening—a process where African farmers manage and protect trees that grow on their farms, rather than cutting them down—is already beginning to transform the continent’s drylands. Supporting and scaling up the low-tech process can not only increase crop yields in…
Climate Science Communications
NOAA Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop Webinar: Special Session on Climate Science Communication Wednesday, October 23, 2013 1:30 pm Eastern * To what extent does the public understand climate science? * To what extent do scientists understand the public? *…
FAO Climate-Smart Agriculture for Development
There has been a rapid uptake of the term Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) by the international community, national entities and local institutions, in the past years. However, implementing this approach is challenging, partly due to a lack of tools and experience.…
USAID Tropical Forest Alliance 2020
TFA 2020 was born out of discussions between the U.S. Government and the Consumer Goods Forum, a network of over 400 companies with annual sales topping $3 trillion. TFA 2020 is a whole-of-U.S. government effort, engaging a full range of…
World Bank – Climate Smart Agriculture
Climate change is a fundamental threat to sustainable economic development and the fight against poverty. The World Bank is concerned that without bold action now, the warming planet threatens to put prosperity out of reach of millions and roll back…
USAID African and Latin American Resilience to Climate Change – ARCC
ARCC uses science-based research and participatory methods to identify climate change vulnerabilities for target populations or sectors of USAID interest and to do options analyses to help support decisions around different approaches to adaptation.
