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...

The National Consultative Workshop on the Use of Geospatial Solutions for Agricultural Development in The Gambia, organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations took place in...

The Geospatial Unit of the Land and Water Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD) collaboratively conducted...

A three-day technical training workshop has been organized on the use of LCCS in Yemen from 20 to 22 November 2023. More than 20 experts participated from key stakeholder organizations...

Forest and farm smallholders and their organizations, who supply at least one-third of the world’s food, are confronting increasingly difficult climatic conditions – such as extreme temperatures, more variable rainfall,...

ISO 57th plenary meeting was hosted by The Bureau of standards (BIS) in New Delhi, India, from the 4th to the 8th December 2023. The mission of ISO is to standardize...

The National Consultative Workshop on the Soil-Land-Water Digital Information System (SoLaWISe) project was conducted in Islamabad by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on 05 and 06...

The FAO and Business Finland are organizing a hybrid event at COP28 on December 11, 2023, titled "AgroAdapt: Cultivate the Future." The event, held at the Finland Pavilion, showcases a...

The training workshop conducted in Banjul on January 16 and 17, 2024, was designed as an interactive platform to enhance the capacity of national stakeholders in employing geospatial solutions for agricultural...

In recent years, the importance of accurate and up-to-date land cover information has become increasingly evident, especially in countries like Somalia that are grappling with environmental challenges, resource management, and...

The Geospatial Unit at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is making significant strides in international collaboration, particularly in the outer space affairs field. Recently, technical officer Matieu Henry represented...

An internal introduction and demonstration of the Land Cover Characterisation Software System (version 2) was given to FAO colleagues by Fatima Mushtaq, Victor Munene and Joe Njeru of the Geospatial...

AgroAdapt, the simulation game for anticipatory climate governance and resilient agrifood system transformation, took the spotlight at the Salon de l'Agriculture. Presented by AgroParisTech students Manon Roux-Dessarps and Adèle Chastanet,...

An internal meeting was held to demonstrate the practical advantages of utilizing the GAEZ dataset and remote sensing techniques for generating spatially aggregated crop yield and yield gap data at...

he collaboration between different international organizations has led to the launch of a groundbreaking certified eLearning course titled "Using land-cover information to monitor progress on Sustainable Development Goal 15." Developed...

The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in collaboration with the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture...