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Some people argue that Africa and tech entrepreneurship is a bad combination. We disagree! In Mali we have been training skilled young people in the use of remote sensing and… Read More »Hackathon

In crisis contexts, using satellite imagery can provide evidence of possible impacts of violent conflict in hard-to-reach areas, detected through land cover and land use changes. For instance, monitoring agricultural… Read More »Land-use changes and violent conflict

Detecting cropland changes is critical to understanding land use patterns, food security and conflict. Agriculture is a powerful proxy indicator of security (or the lack thereof) and as a result… Read More »Cropland Change Mapping

Fixing national datasets: a deep clean of Mali’s pastoral infrastructure data To better understand the needs of pastoralist herders, the Malian government, alongside NGOs built a large nationwide dataset of… Read More »Repairing national geo-spatial data

Monitoring cropland encroachment in pastoral zones. Agriculture and livestock are economic and social pillars in many African countries, especially those in the Sahel. Livelihoods around grazing or cultivation require large… Read More »Farmer-Herder land use conflicts

Humanitarian and development actors are increasingly looking for innovative solutions to monitoring food security. The use of satellite imagery in combination with ground data has become an important tool in… Read More »Early Warning and Food Security

Pastoralism is an important livelihood for hundreds of millions of people across the globe. In many parts of Africa, mobile pastoralism is the dominant livelihood of dryland regions. Moving their… Read More »Mapping Transhumance

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