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ICT Update Magazine - Special issue on drones for agriculture

Posted: Tuesday, 8 December 2015

CTA's ICT Update magazine is looking for articles for its forthcoming issue, which will focus on civilian drones (also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, UAVs) and how they can be used to support farming, fisheries, livestock and natural resource management. CTA would like to hear from anyone who has used or is using drone technology to carry out projects and initiatives involving the above-menti ...

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Pastoralists seek access to water and peace in Chad: Account of a participatory mapping exercise in the Sahel

Posted: Thursday, 16 August 2012

BAÏBOKOUM, CHAD: 31 July to 11 August 2012, the Association des Femmes Peules Autochtones du Tchad (AFPAT), in cooperation with the Secretariat of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC), conducted a training course on Participatory 3 Dimensional Modelling in the area of Baïbokoum, Logone Oriental, in southern Chad. The Chadian mapping project focused on training ...

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Traditional knowledge and landscape mapping in Chad for climate change adaptation

Posted: Sunday, 12 August 2012

Within the context of a CTA-funded initiative, our partners from the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC) and the "Association des Femmes Peules Autochtones du Tchad" (AFPAT) are now in southern Chad to work on a Participatory 3D modelling exercise with M'bororo pastoralists. The exercise takes place near Baibokoum where a mountain landscape meets a plains area, an ...

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