Ethiopia has reduced herd mortality in pastoral communities by 47% by combining local knowledge with satellite mapping. In the face of a widespread drought, a participatory mapping process crowdsources information about where nomadic herders farm, and create satellite maps that show vegetation coverage of the same locations. These are distributed to communities every ten days and used by farmers to inform decisions about where to take their flocks to graze.

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