ESSA East Africa
ESSA : Earth observation and environmental sensing for climate-smart sustainable agropastoral ecosystem transformation in East Africa
Objective
To contribute to the pastoralist households’ transition towards climate-smart agropastoral systems in sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia and Kenya) by understanding the dynamics of and interlinkages between tropical upland forest cover and semi-arid lowland landscapes, and the multifunctionality of agropastoral landscapes, through a system-wide view of food and nutrition security, diversified livelihoods and ecosystem sustainability leading to improvements.
Implementing organization : University of Helsinki
Countries : Ethiopia, Kenya
Funding : €5.000.000 (European Commission)
Duration : December 2020 – December 2024
Website essa-project-aau.org
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