Conference Presentations
“Open EO and FOSS4G serving Sahelian farmers and herders: lessons from the GARBAL programme“, FOSS4G, Prizren, Kosovo, 01 July 2023
“Using Sentinel 2 images to quantify agricultural encroachment in Burkina Faso’s protected livestock reserves”, Foss4g, Firenze, Italy, 26 Aug 2022
“Sharing EO data with farmers and herders in the West African Sahel: Lessons from the GARBAL program”, Foss4g, Firenze, Italy, 23 Aug 2022
“Monitoring resources for livestock herders in Mali and Burkina Faso through an EO-powered call center”, Living Planet Symposium, Bonn, Germany, 23 May 2022
“Assessing cropland changes from violent conflict in central Mali with Sentinel-2 and Google Earth Engine”, Living Planet Symposium, Bonn, Germany, 24 May 2022
“GARBAL: An open GIS for livestock herders in Mali and Burkina Faso” (VIDEO), Foss4G 2021 Webinar, 30 Sept 2021
“Assessing cropland changes from violent conflict in central Mali with Sentinel-2 and Google Earth Engine” (VIDEO), FOSS4G 2021 Webinar, 29 Sept 2021
“Mapping livestock herd movements in the Sahel”, University of Manchester Integrative big and thick data approaches for development webinar, 28 Apr 2021
“Mapping for nomads: using GIS for herders in the West African Sahel“(VIDEO), University of Florida Webinar Colloquim, 21 Jan 2021
“Introduction to the Sentinel Hub EO Browser”(VIDEO), YouthMappers Webinar 15 Sept 2020
“Quand les satellites guident les eleveurs au Sahel”(VIDEO), YouthMappers Webinar, 11 June 2020
“Using Mobile Technology to Strengthen Pastoralists’ Resilience in Mali” , Cracking the Nut, Dakar, Senegal, 15 Oct 2019
“Show me that good grass: an open EO-powered call center for pastoralists in northern Mali”(VIDEO),FOSS4G, Bucharest, Romania, 28 Aug, 2019
“Fast maps and slow responses : Tracking and mitigating drought in the West African Sahel”, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting- Washington DC, 6 Apr 2019
“Participatory mapping with nomadic herders” (VIDEO), Community Geography Workshop, Atlanta, USA, 25 Jan 2019
“How open and free EO data are used for monitoring West-African cattle herders ” GSTIC 2018, Brussels, Belgium 30 Nov 2018
“How to build your GIS early warning system” CARTONG 2018, Chambery, France, 30 Oct 2018
“Developing an Early Warning GIS for Nomadic Herders in the West African Sahel” (VIDEO) , FOSS4G 2017, Boston, USA, 17 Aug 2017
“GIS in responding to drought and food insecurity in West Africa : What’s worked so far? “ Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting 2018, New Orleans, USA, 10 Apr 2018
“La situation Pastorale Janvier 2018” Food and Security Nutrition Working Group, Dakar, Senegal, January 2018
“ A Remote Sensing Information Service for Pastoralists in Northern Mali“,Le Pastoralisme dans le courant des changements globaux, Dakar, Senegal, 20 Nov 2017
“Climatological Predictions and Biomass Measurements for Early Warning”, 4th Regional Climate Outlook forum for the Sahel, Accra, Ghana, 17 May 2017
“Early warning systems for rangeland production in nomadic pastoral communities (West Africa)“, Copernicus Global Land User Workshop, Arlon, Belgium, 6 Jun 2016
“Microwave soil moisture based start of season as an indicator for transhumant pastoralism“, Living Planet Symposium, Prague, Czechia, 05 May 2016
“The Pastoral Early Warning System: monitoring biomass growth with the Proba-V Satellite” , Proba-V Symposium, Ghent, Belgium, Jan 26, 2016
Press
“The tech that helps these herders navigate drought, war, and extremists”, MIT Technology Review, 01 March 2024
“Africa’s Climate Summit and the American Fridge”, Tortoise Media, 06 September 2023
“We have travelled for a month fo find grass: climate crisis piles pressure on Senegal’s herders”, The Guardian, 22 July 2022
“Little Loans” Trickle Down Podcast, 15 July 2022
“Geiten zijn het echte probleem in de Sahel” EW Magazine, 18 February 2022
“The Invisible Enemy: Climate Change and Migration in the Sahel” Voice of America, 22 Dec 2021
“The Great Green Wall: Africa’s Epic Conservation Project” Culture Trip, 23 Jan 2020
“From Sudan to Mali, how climate wars are breaking out across the Sahel”, Middle East Eye, 20 September 2019
“Satellite data shows hunger looming in Senegal, Mauritania”, Thomson-Reuters News, 30 Aug 2019
“Incendios en el Amazonas: los grandes fuegos que se registran en África (y por qué no son comparables con los de Brasil)” BBC Mundo, 27 Aug 2019
TV Interview with Al Jazeera English on drought and wildfires, 27 Aug 2019
“Bigger and deadlier, but African blazes ignored” The Times, 26 Aug 2019
“Famines are becoming more frequent in the Sahel“, The Economist, 25 Oct 2018
“Early Warnings, Late Responses to Senegal’s Food Crisis“, IRIN, 18 Oct 2018
“Sahel herders facing harshest dry season in years, aid agency warns“, Thomson-Reuters, 27 Oct 2017
Awards
Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship– 2012
Truman Scholar– 2009
Resolution Fellow– 2009