by SERVIR Team | Feb 10, 2021 | English, Gender, Portuguese, Spanish
The figures from the report published in May 2020 by UN Women – United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women – entitled Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), are clear in suggesting...
by SERVIR Team | Dec 11, 2020 | English, Gender, Portuguese, Spanish
Geospatial services can benefit the people and the environment of the Amazon by supporting communities in monitoring their territories and addressing the various challenges they face, such as deforestation, illegal mining, climate change, and biodiversity loss. In...
by SERVIR Team | Nov 11, 2020 | English, Gender, Portuguese, Spanish
When she joined the Instituto de Manejo Florestal e Agrícola (IMAFLORA) almost 20 years ago, the young engineer and master in tropical forest management could not imagine that she would be in charge of one of the most important projects for the valorization of...
by SERVIR Team | Oct 17, 2020 | English, Gender, Portuguese, Spanish
NASA’s Earth Science Applied Sciences Program featured SERVIR-Amazonia’s Africa Flores whose award-winning career was recently recognized in the “Breakthrough Women in Science” video series of Science Friday. Africa Flores is the land cover...
by SERVIR Team | Oct 1, 2020 | English, Gender, Portuguese, Spanish
Este artículo se basa en un rico intercambio sostenido con Lorena Ortiz, Claudia Olarte, Carol Franco, Katerine Vergara (todas ellas del IDEAM de Colombia); Kelly Salcedo (SERFOR, Perú); y María Trujillo (ProBosques, Perú), quienes compartieron sus puntos de vista en...
by SERVIR Team | Jul 17, 2020 | APN, English, Gender, Peru, Portuguese, Spanish
Photo credit: CIAT / Neil Palmer SERVIR-Amazonia considers Gender and Social Inclusion as “mandatory” pillars for the success of its activities. In this regard, the Program fosters opportunities for women and indigenous people’s representatives to participate actively...
