Presenter(s):
James Verdin, Program Manager Famine Early Warning Systems Network, FEWSNET team at USAID's Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance, BHA
Remote Access
https://meet.google.com/xkm-huyi-car
Phone Number: 470-705-4269
PIN: 563 978 856#
Description:
Famine early warning involves the development of scenarios of food insecurity going eight months into the future. Working assumptions must be made about the status of livelihoods, market prices, health, nutrition, conflict, and agroclimatology. A multi-agency team of NOAA, NASA, and USGS, along with university partners, provides seasonal forecasting and monitoring services to inform assumptions about agroclimatology. The wide variety of satellite data applications and forecast models that are employed for this purpose will be described.