Geospatial information for sustainable food systems

Publications

Cropland per capita is calculated for 2021 in Kisumu, Kenya to better understand the availability of cropland in each wards of Kisumu. Total population (2020) is obtained from Worldpop data and overlaid with land...
  Agriculture is crucial for the national economy of Afghanistan and in particularly so for the agriculturally dependent population which is constituting 60% of the total population. Adoption of new strategies for agriculture monitoring, rural...
The Global Agro-Ecological Zoning version 4 (GAEZ v4), launched on 17 June 2021 uses well-established land evaluation principles to assess natural resources for finding suitable agricultural land utilization options. It is based on agro-climatic assessments,...
South Africa is the southern most country on the African continent with the 121 309 ha of land area and highly dependent on agriculture sector (79 percent of agricultural land area) for food, income, and...
The Geospatial Unit of the Land and Water Division (NSL) at Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA organized the second virtual consultation, on 24 March 2022,...