Rotterdam Convention Databases

03/03/2025

Data about The Rotterdam Convention has been recently published on the Agro-informatics Platform. The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure (PIC) for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade is a global legally binding agreement that entered into force in 2004.

World Database on Protected Areas - 2024 release and new point data

28/02/2025

The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is the largest collection of data on the world's terrestrial and marine protected areas. The WDPA is a joint venture between the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre and the International Union for Conservation of Nature World Commission on Protected Areas.

The Hand in Hand Initiative: Multi-criteria evaluation suitability assessments

24/02/2025

Fourteen new datasets about Iraq have been published under the Hand in Hand Initiative, which uses geospatial analysis to boost rural incomes, reduce vulnerabilities, and promote sustainable agricultural development. The initiative targets poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and inequality by identifying opportunities for agricultural transformation and rural growth.

WaPOR v.3 Sub-national level datasets for the Najaf area in Iraq

11/02/2025

WaPOR-3 is a FAO’s portal monitoring water productivity through open access of remotely sensed derived data, assists countries in monitoring water productivity, identifying water productivity gaps, proposing solutions to reduce these gaps and contributing to a sustainable increase of agricultural production.

Crop suitability and potential yields (SoilFER platform)

30/01/2025

The Soil mapping for resilient agrifood systems in Central America and Sub-Saharan Africa (SoilFER) project represents a unique framework designed to uncover critical soil data, offering key insights to inform policy decisions on crop suitability and fertilizer recommendations at both national and local scales.

Mobile Broadband Coverage (Global - 1km) - 2024 Release

18/12/2024

The World Mobile Broadband coverage is a 1km resolution raster grid (1/0) representation of cellular mobile wireless Internet access. The grid has been comp...