WaPOR news
Here find all the latest news about the WaPOR project, from conferences and global events the project participates in, to country-specific news as well as new resources as they become available.
Note that country pages offer a filtered view of the news if you wish to focus on news for a partner country of WaPOR phase 2 and the evolution of the project in the country.
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Introductory training for Jordanian and Palestinian stakeholders
08/07/2022
A brief 3-day introductory training was held in Amman, Jordan, between the 3rd and 5th July 2022, to provide 32 Jordanian stakeholders and 6 Palestinian with the basic skills needed...
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FAO DG QU Dongyu calls attention to the importance of leveraging innovation to optimize water use at the 2nd High Level International Conference in Dushanbe
09/06/2022
In his video message to governments and the international community at the plenary session of the 2nd High Level International Conference on the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable...
Training workshop on WaPOR database in Mali
06/06/2022
FAO in collaboration with IHE Delft organized a training workshop in Bamako, Mali from 31 May to 2 June 2022, to help government organizations increase water productivity in both irrigated...
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"Introduction to remote sensing derived FAO WaPOR database" training in Baghdad
06/06/2022
Under the patronage of His Excellency Mr. Mahdi Rashid Al-Hamdani, Minister of Water Resources, the FAO Representation in Iraq held the training workshop “Introduction to remote sensing derived FAO WaPOR...
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WaPOR at the 2022 Living Planet Symposium
31/05/2022
The WaPOR team attended the Living Planet Symposium which took place in Bonn, Germany from 23 to 27 May 2022 with the objective to further engage with the Earth Observation...
WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Tunisia
04/04/2022
On March 30th, a WaPOR phase 2 inception workshop was held in Tunis, Tunisia, welcoming 20 in-person participants and some online participants. Attendees came from a wide range of backgrounds...
WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Mozambique
01/04/2022
On March 29th, a WaPOR phase 2 inception workshop was held in Maputo, Mozambique, welcoming 31 participants, both in person and virtually, from a wide range of backgrounds and institutions...
WaPOR data for groundwater monitoring
16/03/2022
Several parts of the world rely on groundwater for different essential uses for society: agriculture, domestic use and services. In the Azraq groundwater basin, in Jordan, that is certainly the...
WaPOR, an "Initiative Dakar 2022" project at the World Water Forum
16/03/2022
From March 21 to 26, the 9th edition of the World Water Forum will take place in Dakar, Sénégal. This year's organising commitee seeks to make this of edition a...
WaPOR at the second Baghdad International Water Conference on March 5
02/03/2022
The city of Baghdad, capital of Iraq, a WaPOR 2 partner country, will host stakeholders of the water community from all over the world, and particularly from the MENA region...
WaPORACT: open-access tools to extract, interpret, analyze and visualize geodata to improve water productivity
14/02/2022
WaPORACT was created by FAO partner, eLEAF, to support the development of customized geodata services in Africa and the Near East. It is a suite of Python tools that permit...
WAFIRR (Water For IRRigation): a new mobile application in development in Jordan
20/01/2022
The Jordanian National Agricultural Research Center (NARC) and the FAO have formalized a partnership in the creation of an irrigation mobile application using WaPOR data.
The letter of agreement was...
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WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Iraq
16/12/2021
On December 14th, a WaPOR phase 2 inception workshop was held in Baghdad, Iraq, welcoming 50 in-person and 39 virtual participants from a wide range of backgrounds and institutions: the...
WaPOR phase 2 kick-off event “From satellites to fields. Innovations supporting farmers”, Q&A
29/11/2021
On the 22nd of November, the Land and Water Division at FAO hosted the webinar “From satellites to fields. Innovations supporting farmers” to officially kick-off the second phase of the...
WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Algeria
26/11/2021
On November 24th, a WaPOR phase 2 inception workshop was held in Alger, Algeria, welcoming 36 in-person participants from a wide range of backgrounds and institutions: the ministry of agriculture...
Webinar “From satellites to fields. Innovations supporting farmers”, 22 November 2021
16/11/2021
The FAO Land and Water Division invites you to the webinar “From satellites to fields. Innovations supporting farmers” organized on 22 November 2021, from 12.30 to 14.00 (Central European Time,...
WaPOR and WaterPIP at the 2021 Cairo Water Week
01/11/2021
On October 27, the FAO hosted a session at the Cairo Water Week that explored the use of remote-sensing data titled: Water Productivity Improvement in Practice from Remote Sensing Data...
WaPOR recognized as a Digital Public Good
29/10/2021
We are delighted to announce that WaPOR has been reviewed by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) and has been found to be a digital public good in alignment with...
WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Mali
30/09/2021
The 28th of September the third inception workshop of the second phase of the WaPOR project was held in Bamako. So far, inception workshops have been held in Jordan, Sudan...
WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Sudan
11/09/2021
The WaPOR project, now in its second phase, is more demand-driven than the first. It focuses on ten partner countries in which activities start with an inception phase punctuated by...