Maize yield forecasts for Sub-Saharan Africa using Earth Observation data and machine learning

D Lee, F Davenport, S Shukla, G Husak, C Funk… - Global Food …, 2022 - Elsevier
Food insecurity continues to grow in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In 2019, chronically
malnourished people numbered nearly 240 million, or 20% of the population in SSA …

Thirty-four years of dendrochronological studies in Perú: A review of advances and challenges

LA Portal-Cahuana, C Fontana, G Assis-Pereira… - …, 2023 - Elsevier
The development of tree-ring chronologies of tropical trees allows to reconstruct the
environmental history of the Neotropics on extensive temporal and spatial scales. This …

[HTML][HTML] Improving field-scale crop actual evapotranspiration monitoring with Sentinel-3, Sentinel-2, and Landsat data fusion

R Guzinski, H Nieto, RR Sánchez, JM Sánchez… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
One of the primary applications of satellite Land Surface Temperature (LST) observations
lies in their utilization for modeling of actual evapotranspiration (ET) in agricultural crops …

[HTML][HTML] The 2022-23 drought in the South American Altiplano: ENSO effects on moisture flux in the western Amazon during the pre-wet season

RA Gutierrez-Villarreal, JC Espinoza… - Weather and Climate …, 2024 - Elsevier
The 2022-23 hydrological year in the Lake Titicaca, Desaguadero River, and Lake Poopó
hydrological system (TDPS) over the South American Altiplano constituted a historically dry …

Digital map** of soil organic carbon stocks in the forest lands of Dominican Republic

E Duarte, E Zagal, JA Barrera, F Dube… - European journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Map** the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) in lands covered by tropical
forests is important to understand the relationship and dynamics of SOC in this type of …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of runoff estimation from GRACE coupled with different meteorological gridded products over the Upper Blue Nile Basin

K Alghafli, AM Ali, X Shi, W Sloan, AAA Obeid… - Journal of Hydrology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Study Region The Upper Blue Nile (UBN) basin, Ethiopia. Study Focus In efforts to
accurately close the water balance equation for the UBN basin using remote sensing …

[HTML][HTML] An assessment of climate change impacts on oases in northern Africa

W Leal Filho, R Stojanov, C Matsoukas, R Ingrosso… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Oases are vulnerable ecosystems that are affected by climate change. Using high-resolution
climate models focusing on northern Africa, we investigate the changes in the agrosystems …

Agricultural production diversity and child nutrition in Ethiopia

M Bakhtsiyarava, K Grace - Food security, 2021 - Springer
This study investigates how two aspects of agricultural production diversity–farm production
diversity and composition of production–relate to child height-for-age and weight-for-height …

Predicting plant species distributions using climate‐based model ensembles with corresponding measures of congruence and uncertainty

SB Stewart, M Fedrigo, S Kasel… - Diversity and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim The increasing availability of regional and global climate data presents an opportunity
to build better ecological models; however, it is not always clear which climate dataset is …

[HTML][HTML] More than a safety net: Ethiopia's flagship public works program increases tree cover

K Hirvonen, EA Machado, AM Simons… - Global Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
More than one billion people worldwide receive cash or in-kind transfers from social
protection programs. In low-income countries, these transfers are often conditioned on …