The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) have cooperated over several decades to develop and implement the Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZ) modelling framework and databases. AEZ relies on well-established...

The ceasefire is the first step in delivering emergency relief and rebuilding local food production in the Gaza Strip, where more than 2 million people urgently need assistance due to the collapse of agricultural output, according to the Food and...

The new Global Agro-Ecological Zoning (GAEZ) Version 5 will be launched on 14 April 2025, marking a significant milestone that will form part of the 80th Anniversary of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). GAEZ is a comprehensive framework developed to assess the world's agricultural resources and potential. It provides critical insights into land suitability and crop productivity, helping to shape sustainable agricultural practices and policies.

Many of the new satellites currently in Earth’s orbit are equipped to provide revolutionary tools and data to improve global food security and strengthen agrifood systems. A new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) will launch their latest collaborative effort, the publication “Leveraging Space Technology for Agricultural Development and Food Security.” 

The course presents an approach for improved mapping and differentiating spatial-temporal facts at country-level (agro-environmental stratification), using the best remotely sensed data and most modern interpretation/analysis methods. It was developed...

The Government of Pakistan, with support from its cooperating partners, has initiated a comprehensive program to improve agricultural statistical reporting, using auxiliary data from Earth Observation satellites. The project Agricultural...

The training course on land cover mapping and accuracy assessment was organized by the Geospatial Unit of FAO from 19-21 September under the Regional Food Security Analysis Network (RFSAN), within...

11 October 2017 Teheran - 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...

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...

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 meeting and a workshop were organized at Ankara on...

A workshop on “Land cover mapping to support natural resources assessment and conflict mitigation strategies in South Sudan” took place at Juba from 12 to 16 February. The training is...

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 in the Sindh and Punjab...

This month FAO welcomed the new Head of the Geospatial Unit, Douglas Muchoney and launched this new website: ‘Geospatial information for sustainable food systems’. Both come at an opportune moment...

Last month’s workshop on Regional Land Cover Monitoring in Bangkok saw a strong coordinated effort among participating countries from the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region, to use the same land cover classification systems...

The Republic of Turkey’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock (MFAL) is working on a detailed action plan to implement and monitor Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EBA) in the Anatolian Steppe following...

FAO’s Subregional Office for Central Asia led workshops and field trips to the Turkish provinces of Ankara, Konya, Erzurum in July and September 2018 under the project ’Agricultural implications for...

FAO’s Geospatial Unit took part in Earth Observation Week, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA). The event focused on Earth Observation (EO) Open Science and Future Earth Observation and took place...

Experts from South Sudan increased their awareness on the land cover database that FAO is preparing and discussed about classification systems adopted suitable for their country adoption thanks to a...

11-23 January 2019, FAO’s Senior Land Resource Information Management Expert, Gianluca Franceschini trained the ground-data collection team working under the Strengthening Agro-climatic Monitoring and Information System (SAMIS) project. The team...