Environmental Security in Mali: Improving livelihoods by addressing climate an water risks, land management and transhumance

Lead PI: Dr. Alexander de Sherbinin

Unit Affiliation: Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)

April 2021 - March 2022
Inactive
Africa ; Mali
Project Type: Research Education

DESCRIPTION: CIESIN will conduct the following activities during FY 2021:

• Identify and process data layers relevant to the analysis of household livelihood strategies in rangelands, agro-pastoral lands, and the inner Niger Delta
• Identify and process data layers relevant to the analysis of conflicts between pastoralists and sedentary farmers as well as conflict and disaster displacement events
• Process climate impact as well as projected climate and climate impacts data out to 2050
• Integrate the aforementioned data from the other NASA teams with spatial socioeconomic data and data collected from ground-surveys (assuming the data are collected with GPS coordinates)