Events

The SERVIR Applied Sciences team (AST), supported by the Earth Science Division at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has been working with the SERVIR-HKH initiative at ICIMOD and regional partners to develop applications related to water and hydro-climatic disasters for the region.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT)–Bangladesh, in collaboration with the Bangladesh Agriculture Research Council (BARC), aim to establish a drought monitoring and early warning service in the region.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) will conduct a five-day training workshop on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform under its SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) Initiative. ICIMOD organized two successive trainings on GEE in Nepal and Bangladesh in 2017.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) in collaboration with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), the United States Forest Services, and SilvaCarbon, is developing a flexible regional land cover monitoring system (RLCMS).

A one-day consultation workshop on system design and methodology framework for Climate Resilient Forest Management in Nepal is being jointly organized with Department of Forests, Government of Nepal (DoF/GoN) on 9 March 2018 at the ICIMOD headquarters.

The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) is implementing the SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) initiative that supports its regional member countries in enhancing climate services by integrating Earth observation data and geospatial technologies into development decision-making.

The SERVIR-Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) and REDD+ initiatives of ICIMOD, in collaboration with SilvaCarbon, are organizing a five-day regional training on “Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for Mapping of Forest Degradation and Deforestation” in Kathmandu, Nepal from 12–16 February 2018.

At the Geospatial World Forum (GWF) being organized in Hyderabad, India from 15–19 January 2017, ICIMOD is co-sponsoring Geo4SDGs, an international conference aimed at using geo-knowledge to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

As part of its series of capacity building initiatives for professionals, the SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (SERVIR-HKH) initiative of ICIMOD, in partnership with the Faculty of Geosciences, Kabul University, is conducting a training on earth observation and geospatial technologies for water resource management in Afghanistan from 17–27 December 2017.

The Government of Nepal has given high importance to ensuring food security for all its citizens, and recognizes food sovereignty as a basic human right. The core elements of food security are availability, access and utilization.