#subsaharan — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #subsaharan, aggregated by home.social.
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The #Fertility Rate of Every Country in the World
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/fertility-rate-of-world-populations
The highest fertility rates are found in #SubSaharan #Africa, where the population-weighted fertility rate is about four. #Chad (5.94 births per woman), #Somalia (5.91), and DR #Congo (5.90) recorded the region’s highest fertility rates in 2025.
> Contrast to places with very low fertility. #Macao has the lowest fertility rate in the dataset at 0.69, followed by #HongKong at 0.74 and #SouthKorea at 0.75
France = 1.64 -
National-Scale Field Delineation In Mozambique Refines Our Understanding Of Cropland Distribution, Field Size, And Deforestation Actors.
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5cb4 <-- shared paper
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https://philipperufin.github.io/blog/mozfields-2023/ <-- shared associated technical article from one of the paper’s authors
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#foodsecurity #subsistence #smallholder #farms #farming #agriculture #crops #Mozambique #subSaharan #Africa #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #policy #planning #cropland #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #field #deforestation #countrywide #landuse #sustainability #delineation #satellite #SPOT #model #modeling #deeplearning #AI #machinelearning #survey #GeoAI #spatialdata -
National-Scale Field Delineation In Mozambique Refines Our Understanding Of Cropland Distribution, Field Size, And Deforestation Actors.
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae5cb4 <-- shared paper
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https://philipperufin.github.io/blog/mozfields-2023/ <-- shared associated technical article from one of the paper’s authors
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#foodsecurity #subsistence #smallholder #farms #farming #agriculture #crops #Mozambique #subSaharan #Africa #GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #policy #planning #cropland #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #field #deforestation #countrywide #landuse #sustainability #delineation #satellite #SPOT #model #modeling #deeplearning #AI #machinelearning #survey #GeoAI #spatialdata -
Governance for Justice and Environmental Sustainability by Merle Sowman, 2014
Lessons across Natural Resource Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa
Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between rich and poor and the crises of sustainability.
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Governance for Justice and Environmental Sustainability by Merle Sowman, 2014
Lessons across Natural Resource Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa
Understanding the governance of complex social-ecological systems is vital in a world faced with rapid environmental change, conflicts over dwindling natural resources, stark disparities between rich and poor and the crises of sustainability.
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The 7 Most Rapidly Emerging Tech Hubs in Sub-Saharan Africa for 2025 #EastAfrica #SouthernAfrica #WestAfrica #Africa #emerging #Hubs #Rapidly #subSaharan #Tech
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QGIS Plugin To Schedule School Hours Around Rain In Africa [podcast]
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https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-235 <-- link to GeoMob podcast
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[heck of a use case, the noise from heavy rain on metal roofs prevents kids from hearing the lessons]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #usecase #opensource #opendata #Africa #education #qgis #plugin #rain #rainfall #noise #distraction #school #schoolhours #subsaharan #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #appliedscience #Finland #OSM #openstreetmap #openscience #Geomob #podcast
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QGIS Plugin To Schedule School Hours Around Rain In Africa [podcast]
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https://thegeomob.com/podcast/episode-235 <-- link to GeoMob podcast
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[heck of a use case, the noise from heavy rain on metal roofs prevents kids from hearing the lessons]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #usecase #opensource #opendata #Africa #education #qgis #plugin #rain #rainfall #noise #distraction #school #schoolhours #subsaharan #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #appliedscience #Finland #OSM #openstreetmap #openscience #Geomob #podcast
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#Champion #gymnast #LukeStrong on his #trip to #Syria, #traveling the #world & just how many #speedos he owns
After a #careerending #injury, Strong aimed to visit 100 #countries by 30. He's on track, expecting to reach his goal by early December, right before his 31st birthday. He plans to #celebrate this #milestone in #Namibia, the #driest #country in #subSaharan #africa
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Travel #Tourism #PinkTourism #Representation #Culture
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#Champion #gymnast #LukeStrong on his #trip to #Syria, #traveling the #world & just how many #speedos he owns
After a #careerending #injury, Strong aimed to visit 100 #countries by 30. He's on track, expecting to reach his goal by early December, right before his 31st birthday. He plans to #celebrate this #milestone in #Namibia, the #driest #country in #subSaharan #africa
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Travel #Tourism #PinkTourism #Representation #Culture
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How Accurate Are Existing Land Cover Maps For Agriculture In Sub-Saharan Africa? [metrics]
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03306-z <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #EO #Africa #SubSaharan #metrics #foodsecurity #agriculture #farming #crops #cropland #landcover #monitoring #quantative #datasources #statistics #geostatistics #accuracy #precision #model #modeling #Kenya #Malawi #Mali #Rwanda #Tanzania #Togo #Uganda #Zambia -
How Accurate Are Existing Land Cover Maps For Agriculture In Sub-Saharan Africa? [metrics]
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03306-z <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #EO #Africa #SubSaharan #metrics #foodsecurity #agriculture #farming #crops #cropland #landcover #monitoring #quantative #datasources #statistics #geostatistics #accuracy #precision #model #modeling #Kenya #Malawi #Mali #Rwanda #Tanzania #Togo #Uganda #Zambia -
Libyan border guards have rescued around 200 sub-Saharan African migrants who claim Tunisian authorities drove them into the Sahara Desert and abandoned them...
African migrants ‘left to die’ in the desert at Tunisia-Libya border | Al Jazeera Newsfeed -
Libyan border guards have rescued around 200 sub-Saharan African migrants who claim Tunisian authorities drove them into the Sahara Desert and abandoned them...
African migrants ‘left to die’ in the desert at Tunisia-Libya border | Al Jazeera Newsfeed -
New paper on #AccesstoHealthcare and #HealthCareFinancing in #Malawi:
"Determinants of #healthcare seeking and out-of-pocket expenditures in a “free” #healthcare system: evidence from rural Malawi" In: #HealthEconomics Review, 2020, vol. 10, nr. 1, p. 14. #Nakovics_Meike; #Brenner_Stephan; #Bongololo_Grace; #Chinkhumba_Jobiba; #Kalmus_Olivier; #Leppert_Gerald; #DeAllegri_Manuela
https://healtheconomicsreview.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13561-020-00271-2
#SubSaharan #Africa #Health #OutofPocketPayments #OpenAccess #BiomedCentral #SpringerNature
