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...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) have collaborated to make available priority geospatial layers of agro-ecological zoning from the...

The Geospatial Unit of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) organized a virtual technical workshop from 14 to...

In the Central African Republic, the Ministry of Agriculture, in collaboration with the World Bank, successfully concluded the first computerized spatial data management course for the "Emergency Response Project to...

FAO recently conducted a methodology validation workshop for the project "Strengthening Agricultural Value Chain through Geospatial Value Chain Analysis." The project aims to assess the national-scale geospatial and temporal agricultural...

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and International Organization for Standardization/ Technical Committee-211 (ISO/TC211) organized the seventh Advisory Group-13 (AG13) on Land Cover and Land Use meeting...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection (MAEP) of Turkmenistan has requested that FAO support the continued development and consolidation of its land administration system. FAO has been providing support to...

On 27 June 2023, the hybrid event "Enhanced global land and water resources assessment for sustainable agriculture in a high-performing on-demand computing environment" was jointly organized by the Food and...

As the world population is expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050 (UN DESA Population Division, 2022), the degradation of land and water resources and the potential for sustainable and...

FAO, in collaboration with the government and with support from different donors initiated the update of the South Sudan land cover database, making use of FAO Geospatial Unit’s technical know-how,...

The FAO Geospatial Unit is actively providing technical assistance to the "Sustainable Land Management in target landscapes of Central Angola (GCP/ANG/055/GFF)" project. This support aims to facilitate the development of...

The Agro-Ecological Zoning (AEZ) methodology, developed by FAO and the International Institute for Ap-plied Systems Analysis (IIASA), is a well-established modelling system for land evaluation to support sus-tainable land-use planning,...

The National Centre for Vegetation Cover Development and Combating Desertification (NCVC) of Saudi Arabia recently visited the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to discuss technical collaboration...

FAO provides techical assistance on Strengthening Agricultural Value Chain through Geospatial Value Chain Analysis (TCP/MYA/3806).  On September 1, 2023, learn about "Crop Type Mapping," exploring remote sensing techniques for accurate...

Geospatial Unit at Land and Water Division in the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) organizes the first 5 days training workshop in collaboration with FAO Somalia...

The 7th AfriGEO symposium held at the COSDEF Arts and Crafts Centre, in Swakopmund Namibia from 18-23 September, 2023 and Co-hosted by the Ministry of Higher Education, Technology and Innovation,...