WaPOR news
Here find all the latest news about the WaPOR project, from conferences and global events the project participates in, to country-specific news as well as new resources as they become available.
Note that country pages offer a filtered view of the news if you wish to focus on news for a partner country of WaPOR phase 2 and the evolution of the project in the country.
“Introduction and Validation of WaPOR data” training was held in Ramallah, Palestine (11-14 September 2023)
14/09/2023
Co-design workshop for the wheat water productivity tool
28/08/2023
The development of the Wheat Water Productivity tool has been progressing smoothly. The development process began with stakeholder mapping, following a series of individual and group meetings with three key stakeholders: the Ministry of Agriculture, the Agricultural Transformation Institute, a...
WaPOR at the 2023 World Water Week
24/08/2023
The Stockholm World Water Week, an annual event that brings together global experts, policymakers, and practitioners to address pressing water-related challenges, concluded its proceedings on Thursday 24 August.
This year's conference, held under the theme "Seeds of Change: Inno...
EBRD activity on maximizing water productivity of the date palm in Jericho using WaPOR data
08/08/2023
An EBRD-FAO stakeholders’ inception workshop was conducted in Jericho, Palestine to kickstart a set of activities revolving around the use of WaPOR data and ground data to work towards the maximisation of water productivity of the date palm. Around twenty-four participants gathered to dis...
WaPOR data validation training in Baghdad
27/07/2023
On the 26 and 27 July 2023, a data validation training took place in Baghdad, Iraq.
A press release is available in English and Arabic in 👉
WaPOR inception workshop in Morocco
26/07/2023
On 26 July, a number of stakeholders gathered in Rabat to officially launch the LoA between the FAO and the Moroccan Digital Centre (
Field data collection campaigns for the development of crop mapping in Tunisia
21/07/2023
During the workshop for planning and fieldwork preparation for data collection, which took place from June 20th to June 22nd, 2023, two field data collection campaigns were scheduled. These campaigns aim to develop crop mapping for the sites in Jendouba and Kairouan.
The first campaign w...
WaPOR at the Digital Agriculture Solutions Forum 2023
13/07/2023
The Digital Agriculture Solutions Forum 2023 was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in collaboration with CGIAR, to examine and present long-term digital agricultural transformation tools. It took plac...
Irrigation performance tool co-creation workshop in Ségou, Mali
04/07/2023
On Tuesday, 4 July 2023, the WaPOR project organized a workshop in Ségou, Mali, to design a performance evaluation tool for the Office of Niger. Office water management officers, GIS specialists, as well as representatives from FAO, IWMI and the WaPOR project, participated in the workshop/
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Meeting with the GIS specialists of the Ministry of Rural Development
03/07/2023
Tool co-design and co-creation workshop Kenya
29/06/2023
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) recently spearheaded the first Co-Design and Co-Creation Workshop in Kenya as part of the WaPOR Project. This initiative brought together stakeholders from various organizations, including the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation, the...
Workshop on Planning and Fieldwork Preparation for Data Collection
22/06/2023
In Tunisia, as part of the WaPOR 2 project, activities have been identified for the development and provision of high-resolution data (20 meters). This includes planning and preparation of fieldwork, collecting ground reference data, and creating maps.
FAO supported the Ministry of Agric...
WaPOR-based tool co-development workshop was held in Jordan
19/06/2023
On 19 and 20 June 2023, the "WaPOR-based tool co-development workshop" was held under FAO's WaPOR phase 2 project. Seventeen participants from the Jordan Valley Authority (JVA), the Ministry of Agricultural and the National Agricultural Research Center participated.
National training workshop to support gender equality and women’s empowerment in Libya
16/06/2023
Egypt is now part of the WaPOR project
06/06/2023
New course on WaPOR Concepts and Validation by IHE-Delft
01/06/2023
This course aims to provide a better understanding of the theoretical concepts used to generate remote sensing based data on evapotranspiration and biomass producti...
Algeria: an IWMI mission in May 2023
29/05/2023
Irrigation performance tool co-design workshop in Mozambique
20/05/2023
The WaPOR project conducted a co-design workshop from 18th to 20th May 2023, facilitated by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and FAO. The primary focus of the workshop was to identify the information requirements of stakeholders for the irrigation performance tool, a...
FAO Experts Showcase Advances in Land and Water Management at European Space Agency Workshop on High Resolution Thermal Satellite Imagery
10/05/2023
The European Space Agency (ESA) recently organized the International Workshop on High-Resolution Thermal Earth Observation (EO), where experts from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) shared their work in land and water management. Livia Peiser, the Technical Officer ...