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%...

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 aim...

FAO and Government of Iran today launched a project that stablishes a prototype agriculture monitoring system, in three provinces in the country to improve the quality of agriculture information and reporting, based on geospatial technology. With the financial...

The training course on land cover mapping and accuracy assessment is organized by the Geospatial Unit of FAO (CBDS) under the Regional Food Security Analysis Network (RFSAN) within the Project “Strengthening of an inclusive food security information network...

GEOGLAM is the Group on Earth Observations Global Agricultural Monitoring Initiative. The main objective of GEOGLAM is to reinforce the international community's capacity to produce and disseminate relevant, timely and accurate forecasts of agricultural production at national, regional...