Data sets
Zambia Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Analysis
03/12/2025
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. It addresses critical global challenges such as poverty, hunger, malnutrition, and inequality by identifying high-impact opportunities for rural economic expansion
NPKGRIDS data components
02/12/2025
Three new datasets have been published on the Agro-informatics Platform within the Crops and Vegetation channel. The data provides information on the NPKGRIDS dataset components.
New release of the Mobile Broadband Coverage data
24/10/2025
The World Mobile Broadband Coverage dataset is a raster grid at approximately 260-meter resolution, representing cellular mobile wireless Internet access as a binary (1/0) layer. This grid was compiled using data from the GSMA Mobile Coverage Explorer database, incorporating both operator submissions to GSMA and data from the OpenCellID cell tower database.
Soil and land maps legacy data
24/10/2025
Around 5000 historical paper maps are now available on the CKAN catalog. These maps have been produced over the past century by FAO with the relevant contribution of national authorities.
New land cover data for The Republic of Sudan
21/10/2025
The development of the 2020 national land cover map of The Republic of Sudan is an important step towards the REDD+ readiness as well as Sudan’s Forest Monitoring System (SFMS).
Geospatial analysis on Lebanon’s vegetation cover
08/10/2025
The data provides information on Lebanon’s land cover, crop categories and negative vegetation changes in cropland, field crops and grape fields, olive plantations, cereals, fruit trees orchards, as well as deciduous and evergreen forests.
New Geospatial Datasets to Support Agricultural Investment in Cameroon
07/10/2025
New geospatial datasets to support rural development and agricultural transformation in Cameroon.
New datasets on resilience of livestock systems to climate hazards in Cambodia
06/10/2025
The data provides information on Cambodia climate hazard pressure, livestock feed availability and demand, as well as livestock resilience and vegetation health indexes.
Quality of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and land surface temperature
30/09/2025
Three new datasets have been published on the Agro-informatics Platform within the WaPOR channel. While decadal (every 10 days) versions of this data were already available, these new layers provide even more context for users by focusing on the long-term quality of key inputs to the workflow of production of WaPOR data.
New Hand-in-Hand Initiative Analysis Datasets - the Democratic Republic of the Congo
26/09/2025
The Hand-in-Hand Initiative and CSI Agro-informatic 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.
Crop map of Jericho, Palestine
18/08/2025
One new dataset has been published on the Agro-informatics Platform within the WaPOR channel. The data provides information on crops for the West Bank side of the Jordan Valley in the Palestinian governorate of Jericho for the winter growing season (year 2023) and for the spring season (year 2024).
Land available for cultivation in Gaza, Palestine
14/08/2025
One new dataset has been published on the Agro-informatics Platform within the food security channel. The new data provides information on the land availability for cultivation in Gaza, Palestine.
Greenhouses baseline and damage assessment in Lebanon
31/07/2025
Two new datasets have been published on the Agro-informatics Platform within the food security channel. The new data provides information on the greenhouse baseline and damage assessment in Lebanon.
New WaPOR data for the Valle del Cauca area in Colombia
21/07/2025
Fifteen new datasets for the Valle del Cauca area in Colombia have been published on the Agro-informatics Platform within the WaPOR channel.
New WaPOR data for the Jendouba area in Tunisia
21/07/2025
Eight new datasets at 10 m resolution have been published for the Jendouba area in Tunisia on the Agro-informatics Platform, within the WaPOR channel.
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.