Jippe Hoogeveen, a staff of the Land and Water division at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Chief Technical Officer for the WaPOR project, recently attended the third Baghdad International Water Conference held between May 6 and 7, 2023.

During the event, Mr. Hoogeveen pa...

The WaPOR team, international project partners and data service providers met last week at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy. This was the first opportunity for the FAO WaPOR team to gather in-person. 10 FAO national coordinators travelling from WaPOR project countries (plus one on-line from Sudan) joined the team based in Rome.  

On World Water Day 2023, 22-24 March, the world turned its gaze towards the United Nations Headquarters in New York City for the 2023 Conference for the Midterm Comprehensive Review...

On the occasion of World Water Day 2023, 22 March, the FAO Investment Center, in conjunction with the World Bank, released a brief that features WaPOR data on the key...

In an three-day event from March 19th to 21st, 2023, the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education held a dynamic face-to-face training workshop on WaPOR Data Validation in Khartoum, Sudan. This anticipated training marked the second installment following the highly introductory training on WaPO...

Recent national consultations conducted under the auspices of FAO in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali and Senegal have identified specific sectoral applications that could help solve key problems in the areas...

The Agricultural Research Corporation and ICARDA (International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas) organized a field day on March 4th, 2023 at the Alkumur area in the Gezira...

​Under the patronage of the University of Jordan (UJ) President, the department of Geography at the School of Arts in cooperation with the Environmental Geographical Association held a symposium entitled:...

The meeting which took place on 9 February is recounted in a press release in the UN Iraq website in English and in Arabic.  Image credit: UN Iraq

Join us on Thrusday 23 February online for the second day of the FAO Regional Workshop on National Water Roadmaps for an innovations accelerator session that will include presentations and a...

From 16 January to 18 January 2023 a three day training was carried in the city of Adama. The key objectives of the training were to familiarize trainees with WaPOR...

As part of the activities of the WaPOR 2 project in Algeria, a training and needs assessment workshop on WaPOR applications was organized from January 30 to February 01, 2023...

From Sunday 15 Jan 2023 in Baghdad, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Iraq (FAO) in collaboration with Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) conducted a 5-day training...

Between 17 and 20 January 2023, Bert Coerver an expert on remote sensing from the FAO WaPOR team led a 4-day training workshop in Tando Jam at the Sindh Agriculture University.  During...

In the framework of the WaPOR 2 project activities in Tunisia, a validation workshop of the intervention sites and the 2023 action plan was organised on 15 December 2022 at...

In collaboration with IHE-Delft, FAO WaPOR conducted a 3 days in-person training on WaPOR data validation between the 12 and the 14 of December 2022 in Amman, Jordan. Twenty five participants...

On Friday 16/12/2022, the closing event for the 1st online WaPOR hackathon organized by WaPOR partner, IHE Delft, took place virtually and was livestreamed on youtube (you can watch it in...

The Copernicus Land User Event took place on 17 and 18 November in Brussel. The event brought together users of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS), both at European and...

The Sudan Information Technology Exhibition was held in Khartoum from November 23 to 27 organized by the Sudanese Company for Free Zones and Markets under the supervision of the Ministry...

A 3-day introductive training on WaPOR took place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 29th November to 1st December 2022. It was held at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology...