Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information System (SAMIS)
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25/03/2021
During the last two weeks, the External Review team has been focusing on the field activities of SAMIS, and have visited Luang Namtha, Savannakhet and Saravan. In Sing and Namtha, the visits have included SAMIS weather stations and SAMIS villages, including...
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24/03/2021
Within SAMIS, conducting training sessions to share the benefits of this agro-metrological information to farmers nationwide is a responsibility of the National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute (NAFRI). Training sessions were leaded by NAFRI Climate Change Research Center Director Dr...
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01/03/2021
The SAMIS project has been under implementation since 2017 by FAO and national counterparts with many impressive results reported.  Hired by FAO, we, the three independent consultants are conducting an external review of the project. The team is composed by...
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17/02/2021
Starting from the 17th of February, the SAMIS will host the Soil unit at DALAM for six lessons on the development of Lao PDR's soil map. The training workshop will be run virtually over Zoom, during Feb-Mar, 2021. The training...
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12/02/2021
After three years of work, the SAMIS project is happy to introduce the first scientific publication. The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model has been used to downscale the national daily observation data of the last 30 years to 5km...