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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.

 

Training and needs assessment workshop on WaPOR applications in Algiers
09/02/2023
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...
pyWaPOR training in Tando Jam, Pakistan
23/01/2023
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...
WaPOR training in Iraq on data collection for crop mapping
23/01/2023
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...
Stakeholder meeting and pilot area selection in Tunisia
13/01/2023
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...
Data validation workshop in Jordan
13/01/2023
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...
Team 16 wins the hackathon with a proposal for an advisory service for Sudanese farmers
19/12/2022
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...
WaPOR at the Copernicus Land User Event
02/12/2022
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...
WaPOR introductory training in Kenya
02/12/2022
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...
WaPOR at the Sudan IT Exhibition
02/12/2022
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...
WaPOR introductory training in Sudan
01/12/2022
On September 13 and 14, WaPOR conducted an introductory training aimed at a wide range of stakeholders of the project that took place at Hydraulic Research Center premises in Khartoum....
WaPOR at the COP27
24/11/2022
The 27th  ‘Conference of the Parties’ took place this year at Sharm El Sheikh, in Egypt, between 6 to 18 November 2022. On the 14th, WaPOR participated virtually to a session of...
REGISTER to participate in the Copernicus Land User Event
16/11/2022
On 17-18 November 2022, a hybrid event hosted by the Copernicus land monitoring service (CLMS) will take place both online and in Brussels to offer users of its products the...
New WaPOR brochure and ongoing MOOC on the different dimensions of water productivity
10/11/2022
A new FAO brochure on WaPOR titled "Dimensions of Water Productivity" is now available.  It showcases four different water productivities (biophysical, economic, social and nutritional) and illustrates their usefulness and potential...
WaPOR introductory training in Mozambique
09/11/2022

A recent training workshop successfully equipped stakeholders with vital knowledge and skills related to the WaPOR database and water productivity. In addition to the stakeholders from the inception workshop, participants included policymakers, researchers, and end users relevant to the identi...

Training on field data collection using the Open Data Kit (ODK) in Iraq
31/10/2022
As shared by the Land and Water Geospatial information for sustainable food systems team >>> HERE Between the 31st of October and the 1st of November, a training on field data collection for crop...
WaPOR Hackathon 2022: call for participants
17/10/2022
In December, WaPOR will be at the center of a Hackathon under the theme of Monitoring and Evaluating Global Challenges that will hopefully be an opportunity for people from different backgrounds to...
WaPOR data validation workshop in Mali
11/10/2022
On October 11, 2022, WaPOR held a validation workshop in Bamako, Mali, to tackle data the validation of the portal's data in the country.  During the inception workshop, stakeholders in Mali...
WaPOR at the FAO Science and Innovation Forum: REGISTER to participate!
05/10/2022
On the 13th of October 2022, between 15:00 and 16:30 (GMT+2), WaPOR will be at the center of a side-event of the FAO Science and Innovation Forum (SIF 2022). This...
Virtual technical workshop on Improved Water Allocation for Agriculture in the Arab Region
04/10/2022
On the 3rd and 4th of October, the League of Arab States held a virtual technical workshop, during which WaPOR was presented, on Improved Water Allocation for Agriculture in the...
“WaPOR is a digital public good [...]. It shows how big data can benefit smallholder farmers,” says the FAO Director General QU Dongyu.
23/09/2022
The FAO Director-General addresses water conference on the margins of the 77th UN General Assembly and talks about the WaPOR project and WaPOR data. The event titled “Act on Water to Feed...