ESSA East Africa

ESSA :  Earth observation and environmental sensing for climate-smart sustainable agropastoral ecosystem transformation in East Africa

Objective 

To contribute to the pastoralist households’ transition towards climate-smart agropastoral systems in sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia and Kenya) by understanding the dynamics of and interlinkages between tropical upland forest cover and semi-arid lowland landscapes, and the multifunctionality of agropastoral landscapes, through a system-wide view of food and nutrition security, diversified livelihoods and ecosystem sustainability leading to improvements.

Implementing organization : University of Helsinki

Countries : Ethiopia, Kenya

Funding : €5.000.000 (European Commission)

Duration : December 2020 – December 2024