Geospatial information for sustainable food systems

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Land cover is critical for various Sustainable Development Goals, for planning and monitoring sustainable land and water management, including for food security and resilient agriculture. With the recent technological progress and access to information, land cover information is becoming increasingly...

A virtual consultation on the update of the methodology for the new Global Agro-Ecological Zoning was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), in collaboration with...

The Guyanese natural resources endowment is threatened by a progressive pattern of land degradation through inappropriate land use and management practices and lack of reclamation efforts that are making land unproductive, affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services, and exacerbating risks of...

On 31st of January and 1st of February 2022, two projects (Evaluation of irrigation, infrastructure crop mapping and estimation of agricultural water use (OSRO/LIB/100/AFB) and Monitoring, evaluation and rationalization of water use for Agriculture Sector (OSRO/LIB/002/ITA)) were launched by...

A virtual consultation was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), in collaboration with the Environmental System Research Institute (ESRI) and the Asian Institute of Technology...