With a surface area of 2,381,741 km2 , Algeria is the largest country in Africa and the ninth largest in the world, with a useful agricultural area of 8.56 million hectares comprising 1.5 million hectares of irrigated land.

Given that the average rainfall is only 68 mm/year and that the renewable water potential is 14.4 billion m3, Algeria is characterised by severe water stress with less than 380 m3/inhab/year.

Faced with this situation of water scarcity, which is exacerbated by climate change and population growth, Algeria is faced with the challenge of producing more agricultural products using less water, which makes the issue of water productivity a crucial element of reflection and decision making for resilient and sustainable agriculture.

The WaPOR project provides an opportunity to address the water scarcity situation in Algeria through the expected outputs of the development of the open access water productivity platform, the strengthening of national technical capacities for precision agriculture and the development of digital solutions for rational water resource management at the farm plot level.