by Jameel Observatory | Dec 7, 2022 | About, Data, Data-Driven Initiative, Partnership, University of Edinburgh
The Jameel Observatory is one of many projects linked to the Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) initiative at the University of Edinburgh and Heriot Watt University as part of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland city region deal. In its first annual review, the DDI...
by Jameel Observatory | Nov 2, 2022 | Data, Drought, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Horn of Africa, ILRI, Kenya, Livestock
Data and information drive early warning systems that alert policy makers and communities to emerging food and climate shocks. For communities in arid and dry areas of East Africa, livestock are a critical asset, providing food and livelihoods as well as being...
by Jameel Observatory | Oct 24, 2022 | Data, Eastern Africa, Projects, Resilience, University of Edinburgh
The Jameel Observatory combines the local knowledge and concerns of communities facing on-the-ground threats of hunger with innovations in data science and humanitarian action; teaming up to devise solutions that can help predict, prepare for and overcome...
by Jameel Observatory | May 5, 2022 | Climate Change, Data, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Food Security, Resilience
The Horn of Africa is in the middle of another drought that is disastrous to millions of people living in pastoral areas. The early signs were clear way back in 2020 but the humanitarian response will, as so often, only kick in once the crisis is at its peak and lives...
by Jameel Observatory | Feb 21, 2022 | Children, Climate Change, Community Jameel, Data, Data for Children Collaborative, Nutrition, Projects
Child wasting is a key Sustainable Development Goal target and indicator. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, 47 million children were already wasted (a life-threatening form of malnutrition). However, in specific countries, survey results on wasting have a variance of...
by Peter Ballantyne | Oct 29, 2021 | Climate Change, Data, Drylands, Early Action, Eastern Africa, Food Security, Pastoralism, Resilience
The Jameel Observatory for Food Security Early Action brings together leading research and humanitarian agencies to help tackle the growing threat to people in the world’s drylands posed by the increasing severity and frequency of climate-related disasters. As a first...
