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,...

In 2019, Baku, Azerbaijan was chosen as the host city for IAC 2022 by the IAF General Assembly, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the schedule was adjusted, and the...

The Geospatial Unit in Land and Water Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations organized a virtual event to collect the user experience using Land Characterization...

Join us for an exciting interactive experience and demo of AgroAdapt: Cultivate the Future! This simulation game, developed in collaboration with FAO Office Climate Change Biodiversity, FAO Land and Water...

Land cover and land use information is a vital information for governments, agencies and institutions of a country to make informed decisions, promote sustainable development, protect the environment, food security...

The National Consultative Workshop on implementation of the Soil Land and Water Information System (SoLaWISe) initiative was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Tunis...