Geographic Information is now applied everywhere and the neighbouring domains are about to understand the full potential of geographic information. The international standardization process of geodata has gone forward in nearly 25 years and the systematic reviews of the first...

Under the "Building disaster resilience in Pakistan (BDRP)" Programme, FAO’s Geospatial Unit has been supporting the implementation of Pakistan’s National Disaster Risk Reduction Policy Project (OSRO/Pak/601/UK)in the Sindh and Punjab provinces.

The...

The workshop on “Land cover mapping to support natural resources assessment and conflict mitigation strategies in South Sudan” have the multiple objectives to: provide a training to national experts on land cover mapping methodologies; discuss on land cover classification system...

Under the outputs 1 and 2 of the project GCP/TUR/063/EC, co-financed by the European Union and the Republic of Turkey, a workshop has been organized at Ankara with the objective to present, discuss and validate the drought projection...

Increasing sustainable agricultural productivity is the number one challenge of the “The Future of Food and Agriculture” report of the Food and Agriculture Organization in response to a projected increase in demand for food by 50%...