Geospatial information for sustainable food systems

MerWat & IagWat Steering Committee meeting

28/03/2023 - 28/03/2023

The steering committee for MerWat & IagWat projects was organised in Tunis on 28th March 2023. The project “Monitoring, evaluation and rationalization of water use for agriculture sector in Libya”(MerWat - OSRO/LIB/002/ITA) aims at supporting monitoring, evaluation, and rationalization of the agriculture use of water, and to enhance agricultural water management performance, particularly water consumption and productivity. The project Evaluation of irrigation, infrastructure crop mapping and  estimation  of  agricultural  water  use” (MarWat  - OSRO/LIB/100/AFB) aims at  an improved knowledge on the irrigation  infrastructure  damages,  the impact on water efficiency and crop & water productivity supported  by  RS  technologies,  with  the  overall  objective  to  improve  food security in the country by more performant and efficient use of agricultural water. In both projects, the use of geospatial technologies help assessing the status of water management and agricultural infrastructure as well as improving crop and water productivity.