Category 2 Tropical Cyclone Eloise hit central Mozambique on January 23, 2021 with wind gusts reaching 160 km/h. The cyclone epicenter hit Buzi district and caused flooding, and impacted agricultural...

There has never been a more urgent need to restore damaged ecosystems than now. About 60% of the global ecosystem services have been degraded during the last 50 years. Restoring...

La Soufriere volcano started erupting on the 9th of April 2021. Explosions and accompanying ashfall are occurring since then at various magnitude and intervals. This event poses serious challenges for...

As the world population is expected to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050, more efforts and innovations are needed in order to sustainably increase agricultural production.

The classification of Land Cover and Land Use (LCLU) are some of the primary measures driving natural resources monitoring, climate science and are critical for addressing many of the United...

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...