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WaPOR activities in Tunisia
Tunisia has a predominantly Mediterranean climate, with great variability ranging from humid in the extreme north to hyper-arid in the south. The long-term average annual rainfall is estimated at 207 mm/year and annual evapotranspiration varies from 1200 mm in the North to more than 1800 mm in the South (AQUASTAT, 2015).
About 80% of total water withdrawals are used by agriculture for irrigation. The availability of renewable water in Tunisia is 390 m3/capita/year in 2020 (AQUASTAT, 2020) which makes it one of the countries with a water stress level of 96% in 2019, the situation having deteriorated between 2015 and that year (FAO, 2022).
As a result of global warming, rainfall continues to decline, making both rainfed and irrigated crops increasingly vulnerable and threatening the country's food security. In the face of increasing pressure on water resources, WaPOR is one of the solutions the country is turning to to make better use of these resources.
🌾 Ministry of Agriculture, Hydraulic Resources and Fisheries
💦 Bureau of Planning and Hydraulic Balance
🌿 The Olive Tree Institute
🌾 National Institute for Major Crops
🌦️ National Institute of Meteorology
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📍 WaPOR pilot areas in Tunisia: Jendouba, Kairouan and Southwest. |
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WaPOR project meeting was held in Nairobi, Kenya, with FAO team, international project partners and data service provider
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FAO’s WaPOR team, together with the international project partners International Water Management Institute...
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FAO and IHE-Delft Deliver Training on Remote Sensing for Agricultural Water Management
27/09/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education recently conducted an in-person...

Training workshop on crop mapping in Jendouba and Kairouan, Tunisia
26/04/2024
As part of the first component of the WaPOR 2 project, focused on "Development and provision of high-resolution data (20 m)," the project's National...

Regional training workshop "QGIS for water productivity analysis" from 26 to 29 February 2024 in Algiers
26/02/2024
Within the framework of the implementation of the activities of the project "Monitoring land and water productivity by remote sensing WaPOR...