January 26, 2021・3 min read

Webinar: Fighting Desert Locust Together

Register here for the upcoming Feed the Future webinar and join us for an important discussion on the future of early warning and action.

How can we work together (as the public, private, and NGO sectors) to build a future where EVERYONE has the early warnings they need to act and adapt to a changing climate?

Join us for the upcoming Feed the Future Webinar: Fighting Desert Locusts Together on Wednesday, Feb 3 at 8 AM EST.

At ClimaCell.org, we believe that technology and innovation are giving us the opportunity to improve lives more rapidly than ever. The innovations contributing to the future of climate adaptation and early warning systems are a great example of this. But, we’ll only make the most of the potential if we ensure that the benefits of these technologies reach everyone who needs them, including the poorest people in the world.

In this upcoming webinar, we will discuss the opportunities of new technology and innovations for locust early warning and action. There is much to be learned from the recent response and existing early warning systems, and much to do as we continue to innovate and build the early warning solutions of the future.

We thank USAID DLEC and Digital Green for partnering with us on this important topic so we can spark dialogue among stakeholders, forge new partnerships, and TOGETHER bring innovations to those who need them the most.

Speakers include:

Georgina Campbell Flatter, Executive Director, ClimaCell.org
Boniface Akuku, Director of ICT, Kenya Agricultural & Livestock Research Organization (KALRO)
Mark Gilkay, Senior Agriculture Development Advisor, USAID
Emmah Mwangi, Agriculture and Climate Research, Kenya Red Cross Society
Ritika Sood, Partnerships, Arifu
Henry Kinyua, Head of East Africa, Digital Green
Rei Goffer, CSO and Founder, ClimaCell
Yoav Motro, PhD, Locust specialist and head of the recent locust support mission to Ethiopia
Tomer Regev, CEO, Alta Drones and member of the locust support mission to Ethiopia

Register for the webinar now and join us for this important discussion on how we can build the future of early warnings together.

Georgina Campbell Flatter

Georgina leads TomorrowNow.org - an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to lifting millions from poverty through improved access to local forecasts. Prior to Climacell.org, Georgina spent a decade at MIT where her research and activities centered around the role of business and entrepreneurship in driving regional economic development and how to tackling systemic poverty issues through prosperity, trade and enterprise. She was a Senior Lecturer with the Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management Group at MIT Sloan. Through this role, she developed several new academic courses and co-wrote cases on game-changing principled leaders and ventures driving regional and global change. She also served as Executive Director of the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship and, prior to that, Director of MIT’s Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program (REAP). She began her journey at MIT making gecko-inspired surgical adhesives at the MIT Langer Lab and hydrogen-generating nanoparticles at MIT cleantech spinout, Sun Catalytix. Her thoughts on entrepreneurship are captured in pieces recently published in the FT, Entrepreneur.com, and Forbes. She read Material Science at Trinity College Oxford and Technology and Policy at MIT.