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...

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...

Rome – D’après l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO), le cessez-le-feu est la première étape à franchir pour pouvoir apporter une aide d’urgence et rétablir la production alimentaire locale dans la bande de Gaza. Plus de 2 millions de personnes ont besoin de recevoir de l’aide de toute urgence en raison de l’effondrement de la production agricole.

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.

Bon nombre des nouveaux satellites actuellement en orbite autour de la Terre sont à même de fournir des outils et des données révolutionnaires qui peuvent améliorer la sécurité alimentaire mondiale et renforcer les systèmes agroalimentaires. Un 

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...