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 unproductive, affecting biodiversity and ecosystem services, and exacerbating risks of...

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 water use for Agriculture Sector (OSRO/LIB/002/ITA)) were launched by...

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 System Research Institute (ESRI) and the Asian Institute of Technology...

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 within specified temporal and spatial scales and ecosystems”. Restoring degraded...

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 most of the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite this recognized need,...