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.
ESA video for World Water Day: what's space got to do with it?
22/03/2019
UN Sustainable Goal 6 is crystal clear: Water for all by 2030. For World Water Day ESA takes a look at ways that space can help this global challenge. While Earth-observing...
PlantVillage App fetches WaPOR data through API to help Kenya's farmers
28/01/2019
An article on WIRED today features the innovation brought about by PlantVillage Nuru, an App that helps farmers detect crop diseases using Artificial Intelligence. PlantVillage is now able to get...
Launch of WaPOR Version 1.1
01/12/2018
The new version of WaPOR 1.1 has been launched. This new version includes tow major features: more opportunities for storing users' preferred choices for time-series, areas and locations, and enhanced...
WaPOR at the Asia Water Forum 2018
03/10/2018
A session at the AWF in Manila explored the use of WaPOR for monitoring investments in agriculture. The Asia Water Forum 2018 aims to discuss ways to identify and adopt innovations...
WaPOR at World Bank and ESA awareness event
27/09/2018
The European Space Agency and the World Bank’s Agriculture Global Practice co-hosted an awareness event on “Earth Observation for Sustainable Agricultural Development” at the World Bank HQ in Washington DC...
WaPOR at the #HackAgainstHunger/Africa in Rwanda
20/08/2018
WaPOR is being showcased, among other FAO applications, during the Youth Employment in Agriculture Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. Through the event #HackAgainstHunger/Africa, FAO is seeking innovative business models and new technologies...
Release of WaPOR Version 1.0
01/06/2018
Version 1.0 of WaPOR, FAO’s portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data, is now available. This new version is the result of a review...
WaPOR at the 8th World Water Forum in Brasilia
18/03/2018
The World Water Forum is the world’s biggest water-related event and is organized by the World Water Council (WWC), an international organization that brings together all those interested in the...
WaPOR at the 4th Arab Water Forum
27/11/2017
The 4th Arab Water Forum which takes place every three years, promotes a regional platform for engaging Arab Water Council members, decision-makers, water resources experts, practitioners and institutions into dialogue...
WaPOR at the Global Workshop for Monitoring SDG 6
24/11/2017
The UN-Water Integrated Monitoring Initiative for SDG 6 organized a global workshop in The Hague, The Netherlands, gathering country representatives from across the world as well UN-Water Members and Partners....
The great Egypt Water Productivity Hackathon
17/10/2017
MetaMeta and the 25% Water Productivity Alliance organized in Cairo a 24 hours event aiming at building applications based on the FAO WaPOR portal and database. Participants were encouraged to...
Monitoring water use in agriculture using WaPOR
16/10/2017
VITO published an article on remote sensing on its blog. The article was written by a member of the FRAME Consortium, which supports the data development for WaPOR, and shows...
Using real-time satellite data to track water productivity in agriculture: new FAO tool offers water-scarce countries and river basins a way to boost productivity
20/04/2017
The WaPOR open-access database has gone live, tapping satellite data to help farmers achieve more reliable agricultural yields and allowing for the optimization of irrigation systems. WaPOR was presented this...