FAO's land and water division, represented by the Geospatial Unit and Soil information and data teams, was invited to present an initial analytical framework and demonstrate a prototype of the proposed toolkit. The workshop marked an important step toward the creation of a country-driven global decision-support infrastructure that can help direct investments to areas where they can generate the greatest benefits for land, agriculture and communities.

Nairobi, Kenya – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), through the Soil Mapping for Resilient Agrifood Systems (SoilFER) Project conducted a two- d...

New digital tool combines soil, climate and landscape data to improve yields, strengthen resilience and support smarter farming

Rome, 2 July 2026 – The Geospatial Unit of FAO’s land and water division participated in the Global Conference on Smart Farming: Leveraging dat...

In close collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Advisory Group 13 (AG13) on land cover and land use, operating under the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 211 (ISO/TC 211), successfully convened a meeting on 8 June 2026 to discuss advances on in-situ data collection protocols supporting Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) and Earth Observation (EO) activities.

FAO, in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority (ADAFSA), the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), has published a new study supporting sustainable agricultu...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has published the final geospatial flood impact assessment report on the 2025 monsoon floods across Pakistan’s three most affected provinces, Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

Using ...

On 17 and 18 December 2025, the Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations (FAO) participated to the First Arab Regional Forum on Early Warning Systems and Disaster Preparedness, held at the League of Arab States' headquarters in Cairo, Egypt...

FAO and its partners are working to help countries build more robust, transparent and adaptive crop monitoring systems in the face of increasing climate variability. To this end, two technical trainings were organized at FAO headquarters: a comparative study of early warning s...

Dans un contexte où les données de terrain sont de plus en plus limitées mais essentielles pour la planification agricole, cette analyse fournit des informations critiques et fiables pour soutenir la prise de décision.  

Volunteers from the United Nations Mappers (UN Mappers) initiative have added more than 8 500 km of waterways and 1 600 km² of farmland to OpenStreetMap (OSM) in Mauritania. This new data is already improving the a...

 

Nine new datasets have been published on the Agro-informatics Platform within the Land cover channel. The data provides information on Lebanon’s land cover, crop categories and negative vegetation changes in cropland, field crops and grape fields, olive plantations, cereals, fruit trees ...

During the upcoming World Food Forum (Rome, 13–17 October 2025), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will highlight how Earth observation a...

From 8 to 11 September 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) took part in the Geo for Good Summit in Singapore, Google’s global gathering of practitioners using Earth Engine and related geospatial tools for sustainability and resilience....

On 1 September 2025, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched the online training programme “Using geospatial information technology to bridge data gaps and support decision-making in the water and agriculture sectors in water-scarce contexts&rdqu...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will be contributing to the 45th< International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), which will take place from 4-8 August, 2025 in Brisbane, Australia. Under the theme "One earth", FAO and partner...

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the technical committee of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) have jointly developed the ISO 19144 standard series in efforts to address the global need for standardized approaches to land cover and land use.

From 20 to 22 May 2025, the Food and Agriculture organization of the United Nations (FAO) participated at the 2nd General Assembly and Global Network of Users (GNU) of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS), held in Krakow, Poland. The event brought together key stakeho...

Following the launch of the Global Agro-Ecological Zones version 5 (GAEZ v5) in April 2025, this webinar will introduce the updated GAEZ framework, its purpose, structure and key improvements. Participants will explore practical applications of GAEZ v5 data for agricultural planning, food secu...