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Crop water consumption, Measuring stressor impact, Validation and evaluation, Water accounting, Water and land productivity
Water accounting and auditing in the South Atlas hydraulic basins of the Draa Tafilalet region
14/02/2024
The comprehensive methodology implements water accounting cycles combining rapid assessments with in-depth analysis, including stakeholder mapping, secondary data exploitation, field investigations, and modeling.
Case studyResource AETIGBWPLCCTBP
Crop water consumption, Irrigation performance, Water and land productivity
WAPlugin (for QGIS)
14/02/2024
A plugin for the open-source GIS software that allows users to download WaPOR data directly onto the QGIS canvas and offers the possibility of calculating some water accounting and productivity...
ResourceWaterPIP AETIEGBWPILCCNBWPNPPPPheqLCC*qLSTqNDVIRETTTBP
Water and land productivity
Land and water productivity of the maize crop, Galana Kulalu
14/02/2024
The objectives of this study were; i) to characterize the status of water use and water productivity in the Galana Kulalu irrigation scheme through use of the WaPOR database and...
Case studyWaterPIP AETINPPRETT
Water and land productivity
MAPME: maps for planning, monitoring and evaluation in development cooperation
14/02/2024
MAPME is an initiative by KfW, MapTailor Geospatial Consulting, and Agence Française de Développement to provide free and open access to GIS tools and Earth observation in international development cooperation. MAPME repositories contain R codes...
Resource AETIEGBWPILCCNBWPNPPPPheRETRSMTTBP
Water and land productivity
Entangled logics of water and land productivity: conversations among Egyptian farmers and WaPOR’s remote sensing data
14/02/2024
This thesis invites the definition of water productivity as used by WaPOR into a conversation with other productivity narratives enacted by 18 Egyptian farmers in the West Nile Delta. This...
Case study AETINPP
Water and land productivity
Monitoring Irish Potato Production in Nyandarua County
14/02/2024
The main objective of the study was to monitor potato production with an aim of providing insight into areas for targeted irrigation expansion while measuring the effectiveness of the irrigation...
Case studyWaterPIP AETINPP
Water and land productivity
Trends in water consumption, production and water productivity in Islamic Development Bank member countries
14/02/2024
This report provides an overview of changes in agricultural indicators from 2009 to 2020 in a selection of Islamic Development Bank member countries. The data can also be viewed interactively in Google...
WaterPIP AETILCCNPP
Water and land productivity
WaPOR for Monitoring Agricultural Water Productivity (WaPOR4Awp)
14/02/2024
WaPOR4Awp is a web-based tool that computes and visualizes agricultural water productivity data for countries in Africa and the Near-East using WaPOR data in support of monitoring SDG 6.4.1- Change...
Case studyResource AETILCCP
Advisory services, Crop water consumption, Irrigation performance, Productivity/yield gaps
IREY (Irrigation Reference to Enhance Yield)
14/02/2024
The Smart Irrigation App “IREY” was developed to provide real-time irrigation schedules in Tunisia for selected crops (i.e., wheat, barley, sugar beets, oats and corn). Irrigation schedules in the Smartphone...
Case studyResource ET
Crop water consumption, Water and land productivity
Water Productivity Analyses using the WaPOR Database: A Case Study in Xinavane, Mozambique
14/02/2024
WaPOR data was used in this study in Xinavane to calculate the water and land productivity of sugarcane crops in order to identify the productivity gaps and evaluate the best...
Case studyWaterPIP AETILCCNPP
Validation and evaluation, Water and land productivity
Operational framework to predict field level crop biomass using remote sensing and data driven models
14/02/2024
An operational framework was developed to predict field crop biomass using high resolution multi-source satellite data. Five regression algorithms were tested to assess their suitability to predict field scale sugarcane...
Resource AETINPP
Crop water consumption, Water and land productivity
Analysis of spatiotemporal variability of water productivity in Ethiopian sugar estates: using open access remote sensing source
14/02/2024
The authors of this paper seel to map the seasonal and spatial variability of agricultural water productivity of sugarcane crop in three large irrigation schemes of Ethiopia (Wonji, Fincha’a and Metahara)...
Case study AETINPP
Water and land productivity
The Global Environment Facility Integrated Approach Pilot Program (IAP) on Sustainability and Resilience for Food Security in sub-Saharan Africa
14/02/2024
WaPOR data was assimilated into a portal in order to facilitate the understanding of regional dynamics for land productivity (using AGBP), biomass water productivity, and water consumption (AETI) for the...
Resource AETIAGBP*NBWP
Validation and evaluation, Water accounting
Investigating the changes in agricultural land use and actual evapotranspiration of the Urmia Lake basin based on FAO’s WaPOR database
14/02/2024
The purpose of this study is the investigation of the relationship between agricultural land-use changes and the decrease of the Lake Urmia water level. This was achieved calculating the actual evapotranspiration...
Case study AETILCCNBWP
Water accounting
Water Accounting in the Nile River Basin
14/02/2024
Water Accounting + (WA+) is a tool that allows for the collection, analysis, summary and reporting of water related information in river basins. WA+ uses remotely sensed and other open...
Case study AETIILCCPRET
Water and land productivity
Monitoring Water Productivity: Demonstration Case for ThirdEye Mozambique
14/02/2024
This study carried in Mozambique, more specifically in the Xai-xai area aims to measure water productivity, using different products, at different scales: the sub-project level and the field level. WaPOR...
Case studyResource GBWP
Water accounting
Water Accounting in Kenya 2010-2021
14/02/2024
The World Bank realized a desktop water accounting study in Kenya for the years 2010-2021. WaPOR data was used alongside a variety of other data sources. The objective was to attempt...
Case study AETIRET
Validation and evaluation
Status of accuracy in remotely sensed and in-situ agricultural water productivity estimates: A review
14/02/2024
This study focuses on evaluating the accuracy of water productivity estimates derived from in-situ data and critically reviews and evaluates the accuracy of estimates derived from remotely sensed data (among...
Resource GBWP
Crop water consumption, Validation and evaluation
Monitoring Water Productivity using AquaCrop
14/02/2024
In this last Water Productivity Masterclass Series webinar (week 6), the presenters touch on the agronomic aspects of water productivity. AquaCrop is used to derive water productivity for fields in...
ResourceWaterPIP AETINPP
Advisory services
IRWI (Irrigation Water Information)
14/02/2024
This mobile application supports farmers' decision-making in matters of water management and productivity. It provides information on agro-meteorological nature, crop status, irrigation quantity, and scheduling, as well as fuel costs....
Case study AETINPPP