SERVIR-Africa community news - entries in October 2009

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SERVIR-Africa community news - entries in October 2009
http://www.servir.net/africa/index.php?option=com_mamblog&Itemid=54&task=show&action=all&id=0&ignorecount=1

- Cell phone information services for farmers in Uganda
- Big Cats Initiative launched by National Geographic
- Remotely sensing water under Earth’s surface

- Science puts malaria fight on the map
- Satellite data instrumental in combating desertification

- 3rd African Leadership Conference on Space Science and Technology for Sustainable Development
- Eye on locusts: scientists make a good tool better
- Africa experiments with climate insurance
- African ministers responsible for meteorology to meet to strengthen climate services
- Earth Science Education Initiative for Africa
- Risk and Vulnerability Atlas comes to South Africa

- Predicting and coping with climate change in Africa
- Uganda's GPS stock-take
- MAM/IGAD project in-country workshops
- Scientists join forces to explain HIV spread in Central and East Africa
- FEWS NET: El Nino and Food Security in East Africa
- Latest SDI-Africa newsletter (October 2009)

- Nigeria set to launch NigeriaSat-2 in 2010
- Telecom companies to give farmers accurate climate updates
- NASRDA now UN-SPIDER Support Centre for West Africa

 

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