Sustainable Development in Africa & Satellites

Table of Contents

Africa's pathways

10

A drop of Africa

14

Heritage and Creation

18

From Africa to America

20

THE CONCERNS 24

Committed to sustainable development

26

Looking from the North

30

Indigenous knowledge

32

The calabash and the satellite

33

SPACE TOOLS 34

ARMC: space cooperation for development

37

From space to the Earth

38

Satellite data and disasters

39

Yields forecasting

40

WATER 42

The governance of transfrontier waters

45

Water route prospects

46

Devoted to water

47

A right for all

47

Africa’s rivers and lakes

48

Ngondo, the festival of water peoples

50

Water quality survey

52

Preserving the oases

54

SOILS 56

Confidential data

58

Drought and remote sensing

59

Tradition and Modernity

62

Mineral resources mapping

64

Evolution of agricultural methods

67

San knowledge 68

BIODIVERSITY 70

Biodiversity is life

70

Cheetah, lion and hyena monitoring

72

Mangroves need protection

74

Small is beautiful

76

Forests, our hope

78

Keeping an eye on bird routes

80

SEAS 82

Coastal and marine management

84

On the watch, night and day

86

Traditional fishing evolution

88

The waves give rise to dancing

89

Coasts and altimetry

90

RISKS 92

A world of risks and promises

94

Traditional practices

96

We must unite 97

Preventing land degradation

98

Fire monitoring

102

Education and training

103

Fires regenerate land

104

DECIDING 106

ICT for Sustainable Development

109

Capacity building and cooperation

111

Training engineers and technicians

112

Towards a green economy

113

Genius Loci, the spirit of a place

114

GEO Vision and Objectives

116

AfriGEOSS: Earth observation for Africa

119

The empires of the mind

120

Enhancing technological capacity

122

APPENDIX 124

Space missions and instruments

124

Acknowledgments

126

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