AMESD SADC Thematic Action – Agricultural and Environmental Resource Management
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Africa Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development (AMESD) in Southern-Africa aims to empower Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) and its member states to manage their agricultural and environmental resources in a sustainable way.
Based upon the user needs requirement, AMESD has set up 3 main services
AMESD SADC Services
The Agricultural Service will monitor the state of the crops and rangeland. The Drought Service will monitor drought during the whole year and deliver a decadal “Drought map” and a “Drought Outlook” in support of both agriculture and environmental issues. The Fire Service will provide a daily fire risk indication (before the fire), continuous active fire maps (in real time during the fire season, refreshed every 15 minutes) and monthly burnt area assessments (after the fire).
A common “Long Range Forecast” service will complement the 3 main services and provide them a seasonal forecast outlook
The AMESD THEMA serves 2 user communities, the agricultural community (with in general the Ministry of Agriculture as the focal point) and the Environmental community (with in general the Ministry of Environment as the focal point).
With those services the RIC covers the hot topics in Southern Africa, which are the condition of the crop and the rangeland and the two major events that threaten the availability of environmental resources being drought and bushfire.
Regional Economic Community
SADC
SADC Secretariat
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Participating countries
Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South-Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Regional Implementation Center
AMESD SADC Thematic Action is hosted by the Botswana Department of Meteorological Services (Head Quarters), the offices are in Gaborone, Botswana.
Partners
ARC, BCA, CSIR-MERAKA, SANSA, SAWS, UB, UZ
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