FAO, in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA), the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), has published a new study supporting sustainable agricultu...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has published the final geospatial flood impact assessment report on the 2025 monsoon floods across Pakistan’s three most affected provinces, Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

Using ...

On 17 and 18 December 2025, the Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations (FAO) participated to the First Arab Regional Forum on Early Warning Systems and Disaster Preparedness, held at the League of Arab States' headquarters in Cairo, Egypt...

FAO and its partners are working to help countries build more robust, transparent and adaptive crop monitoring systems in the face of increasing climate variability. To this end, two technical trainings were organized at FAO headquarters: a comparative study of early warning s...

Dans un contexte où les données de terrain sont de plus en plus limitées mais essentielles pour la planification agricole, cette analyse fournit des informations critiques et fiables pour soutenir la prise de décision.  

Volunteers from the United Nations Mappers (UN Mappers) initiative have added more than 8 500 km of waterways and 1 600 km² of farmland to OpenStreetMap (OSM) in Mauritania. This new data is already improving the a...

 

Nine new datasets have been published on the Agro-informatics Platform within the Land cover channel. 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 ...

During the upcoming World Food Forum (Rome, 13–17 October 2025), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will highlight how Earth observation a...

From 8 to 11 September 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) took part in the Geo for Good Summit in Singapore, Google’s global gathering of practitioners using Earth Engine and related geospatial tools for sustainability and resilience....

On 1 September 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched the online training programme “Using geospatial information technology to bridge data gaps and support decision-making in the water and agriculture sectors in water-scarce contexts&rdqu...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will be contributing to the 45th< International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), which will take place from 4-8 August, 2025 in Brisbane, Australia. Under the theme "One earth", FAO and partner...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have jointly developed the ISO 19144 standard series in efforts to address the global need for standardized approaches to land cover and land use.

From 20 to 22 May 2025, the Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations (FAO) participated at the 2nd General Assembly and Global Network of Users (GNU) of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS), held in Krakow, Poland. The event brought together key stakeho...

Following the launch of the Global Agro-Ecological Zones version 5 (GAEZ v5) in April 2025, this webinar will introduce the updated GAEZ framework, its purpose, structure and key improvements. Participants will explore practical applications of GAEZ v5 data for agricultural planning, food secu...

The FAO Geospatial Unit and WaPOR team, both hosted by the Land and Water division, will be participating in the Living Planet Symposium 2025, taking place from 23 to 27 June in Vienna, Austria. Organized by the European Space Agency (ESA), the event brings together the global Earth observatio...

Adopting standards for field data collection and data sharing enables communities to generate reliable data to support food security efforts. During the 44th Symposium of the

As of April 2025, more than 80 percent of the Gaza Strip’s total cropland area has been damaged (12,537 hectares out of 15,053) and 77.8 percent is not accessible to farmers, leaving just 688 hectares (4.6 percent) available for cultivation....

Whether you're a policymaker, researcher, or practitioner, the FAO booth will offer you a valuable opportunity to explore innovations in geospatial solutions for agriculture and food security.

Food production is shaped by geography—land, water, and climate determine where, how and what food we grow. Since its earliest days, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has recognized the power of spatial data to monitor these...