Productive land is a foundation to global food security and environmental health, zero hunger, poverty eradication, and energy for all yet this natural resource is under pragmatic threat. Human activities...

Due to high population growth, unsustainable natural resources management, landscapes in Central Angola are degraded. The Centre of Tropical Ecology and Climate Change (CETAC), under the Ministry of Culture, Tourism...

Land cover is one of the 14th essential geospatial data layers recognized by the United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM). It is essential for achieving...

Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) is “a state whereby the amount and quality of land resources, necessary to support ecosystem functions and services and enhance food security, remains stable or increases...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A new framework designed to monitor and report on the progress of restoration efforts throughout the duration of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration has been launched by the Food...

Field data collection training to analyze the spatio-temporal dynamics of air pollution and the delineation of hotspots in Lao PDR was organized from 17 to 19 May 2022 at the...

On 1st July 2022, a consultation on identification of Nature Based Solutions (Nbs) and use of geospatial was organized by FAO, the International Council for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) in...

A technical training on using geospatial technologies, mapping and delineating intervention areas for the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) in Nepal was organized on 18 July 2022. It aimed at...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Regional Center for Agrometeorology, Hydrology and Meteorology (AGRHYMET), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS ), the Sahara...

A training workshop took place on Air Pollution Modelling and delineating hotspots using satellite data and geospatial analysis during 18-19 August 2022 at Crowne Plaza Hotel at Vientiane Capital, Lao...

On 15 September 2022, the virtual event "Geospatial for sustainable agriculture and urban development in Africa" was organized to share knowledge and experiences on the use of geospatial data and...

A consultation on "Global Agro-Ecological Zoning (GAEZ) Platform and Applications" was organized on September 19th 2022. It aimed at providing to GAEZ users a demonstration of functions and tools of...

The Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) convened the Second United Nations World Geospatial Information Congress (UNWGIC) in Hyderabad, India from 10-14 October 2022. Organized by the...

An international consultation on the development of the new land characterization system software (LCHS) has been organized on 21 November 2022 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations...

Innovative technologies, machine learning and big data have the potential to accelerate progress in improving access to land resource information. The Gums for Adaptation and Mitigation in Sudan (GAMS) project...