Global Surface Water
17/07/2025
Six new datasets about global surface water have been published on the Agro-informatics Platform (AIP). The European Commission's Joint Research Centre developed a new water dataset in the framework of the Copernicus Programme.
Hydrological Basins New Release
07/07/2025
Ten new datasets about hydrological basins have been published on the Agro-informatics Platform. The data provides global information on basins, sub-basins and hydrological. This release is the updated version of FAO's Hydrological Basins of the World dataset.
Land availability for cultivation in the Gaza Strip as of April 2025
03/06/2025
The area available for cultivation is the area that is not damaged and not subject to access restrictions. The damaged area is assessed based on the baseline cropland dataset for 2023, and the assessment to cropland of March 2025 by FAO and UNOSAT.
New EOSTAT data release
20/05/2025
Ten new datasets have been published in the Agro-informatics Platform as part of the Earth Observation Data for Official Agricultural Statistics (EOSTAT) project. These datasets provide information on crop types, crop masks and crop yield prediction for Angola, Cameroon, Ecuador, Senegal, Srilanka, Tajikistan and Zimbabwe.
New Hand-in-Hand Initiative Analysis Datasets Released by CSI Agro-Informatics Division for the Republic of Uzbekistan
16/05/2025
The Hand-in-Hand Initiative and CIS Agro-Informatics Division have released new geospatial analysis datasets. Aiming at accelerating rural development and agricultural transformation, the initiative leverages advanced geospatial tools to boost rural incomes, reduce vulnerabilities, and promote sustainable agricultural growth.
CROPGRIDS Data on Harvested and Crop Areas
07/05/2025
Two new CROPGRIDS datasets have been published on the Agro-informatics Platform. CROPGRIDS provides spatially explicit information on the distribution of 173 crops at a resolution of 0.05 degrees (~5.6 km at the equator), for the year 2020. It represents a major update of a similar data product referenced to the year 2000 dataset.
Namibia Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Analysis
28/04/2025
New Hand-in-Hand Initiative datasets have been published, using geospatial analysis to boost rural incomes, reduce vulnerabilities, and promote sustainable agricultural development, targeting poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and inequality.
Global GAUL new 2024 release
14/04/2025
The Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL) 2024 is a vector dataset compiling the most recent available information on administrative boundaries from multiple sources, produced by FAO from 2022 to 2024 in the framework of the Hand-in-Hand Initiative and the Geospatial Data Platform activities.
Publishing Mongolia Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Analysis
14/04/2025
New Hand-in-Hand Initiative datasets have been published for Mongolia. The Initiative uses geospatial analysis aiming to transform agrifood systems to boost rural incomes, reduce vulnerabilities, and promote sustainable agricultural development, targeting poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and inequality.
The continental atlas of the distribution of tsetse flies in Africa
28/03/2025
The continental atlas of the distribution of tsetse flies in Africa has been published on the Agro-informatics Platform. Tsetse flies are the sole cyclical vectors of African trypanosomosis, a parasitic disease that affects both humans and animals.
Fish farming suitability assessment in the Republic of the Congo
11/03/2025
New Hand-in-Hand Initiative analysis datasets have been published. The initiative uses geospatial analysis to boost rural incomes, reduce vulnerabilities, and promote sustainable agricultural development, targeting poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and inequality by identifying opportunities for agricultural transformation and rural growth
Above-ground biomass stock and forest-woodland cover changes in refugee settlements
10/03/2025
The FAO-NSL Geospatial Unit has worked on eight new datasets which have recently been published on the Agro-informatics Platform within the Land Cover/Use channel. The data focuses on four refugee settlements. Among those, two are located in the United Republic of Tanzania and two in Uganda.
Prosopis Mapping in Djibouti
10/03/2025
New data about Prosopis distribution in Djibouti has been published on the Agro-informatics Platform within the Land Cover/Use channel. Prosopis is a highly invasive species in Djibouti, rapidly spreading across various ecosystems and disrupting native flora and fauna.
South Africa Multi-Criteria Suitability Assessments
04/03/2025
New Hand-in-Hand Initiative analysis datasets have been published. The initiative uses geospatial analysis to boost rural incomes, reduce vulnerabilities, and promote sustainable agricultural development, targeting poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and inequality by identifying opportunities for agricultural transformation and rural growth.
Desert Locust Information Service - New Update
03/03/2025
FAO closely monitors the global Desert Locust situation 24/7 and provides forecasts, early warning and alerts on the timing, scale and location of invasions and breeding through its global Desert Locust Information Service (DLIS).
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.