Liwonde National Park in Malawi | Source: Malawian Style These are just a few examples of the many applications of drone mapping. As drone technology continues to evolve, the range of applications will likely c
Satellite Earth observations (EO) can provide affordable and timely information for assessing crop conditions and food production. Such monitoring systems are essential in Africa, where food insecurity is high and agricultural statistics are sparse. EO-b
The learning crisis is not new. In the years before COVID-19, many school systems faced challenges in providing learning opportunities for many of their students. The World Bank estimates that before the pandemic, more than half of students in low- and middle-income countries were living in ...
addition, 43 CSISA field technicians participated in the trial. CSISA aimed to benefit eight million farmers through its agricultural research and extension program. At the time of the study, CSISA employed a total of 43 field technicians in Bihar (and neighbouring districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh...
Livelihood strategies, capital assets, and food security in rural Southwest Ethiopia Cross-sectional Mixed Methods: Survey questionnaire, field notes November 2015–January 2016 6 kebeles (smallest administrative unit) in 3 districts, in Jimma Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia Randomly selected households (...
For example, evidence from Malawi suggests that provider skills and educational level as well as institutional capacity in terms of staffing and other resources were at too low a level when the P4P scheme was introduced (McMahon et al., 2016), thus limiting programme effects, a finding that ...
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today threatening societies and the future of the planet. The impacts of climate change are more severe in poor and marginalised populations like Indigenous communities where people rely heavily on their Indigenous Knowledge (IK) to ad...
The process, AT Internet adds, can also be termed ‘data analytics’ or even ‘data democratization’ in that “the process of democratizing data means making data accessible to as many people as possible within a company”. DialogTech, a Chicago-based business specializing in analyzing and opti...
northern Ethiopia. The 2015/16 El Niño droughtFootnote1was one of the most severe shocks that affected many areas, particularly in the northern, central, and eastern parts. This drought resulted in significant rainfall deficits in millimeters compared to the long-term average, as indicated in ...
1 Countdown to 2015, a multiorganisational partnership now renamed Countdown to 2030, has tracked progress in women and children's health since 2003. Countdown commissioned ten country case studies (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Pakistan, Peru, and Tanzania) to...