The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education recently conducted an in-person training on remote sensing for agricultural water management. The event took place at IHE-Delft in the Netherlands from 18 to 27 September 2024.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) held a workshop on 4 September in Amman, Jordan, to address gender equality and social inclusion in the WaPOR-based irrigation assessment tool for the North Jordan Valley.<...

The FAO, in partnership with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), held a second hybrid training session in Algiers for the members of the WaPOR Digitization Cell (CNWaPOR). This event is part of IWMI's action plan in Algeria, aimed at developing a collaborative model for determ...

From October 1, 2023, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), as a partner in the WaPOR II project, has been working on developing a WaPOR tool for monitoring land and water productivity and irrigation performance assessment for the West Gharraf irrigation project in Iraq. The ini...

FAO, along with several local institutions, conducted a workshop in Maputo, Mozambique, from July 31 to August 2, 2024, to validate the WaPOR Irrigation Performance Assessment Tool and discuss gender and social inclusion in its development. The workshop brought together 30 participants, includ...

As FAO’s WaPOR Portal started covering Pakistan with continuously updating evapotranspiration (ET) and ...

On July 29, 2024, the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the ...

A training session on the Irrigation Management Information System (IMISET) was held in Adama,...

For researchers and practicionners that are interested in learning how to use python scripting in their work, IHE Delft offers a free and self-paced learning resource: a Massive Open Online Course on python for geospatial analyses using WaPOR data...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education held an in-person training on remote sensing for agricultural water management at IHE-Delft in the Netherlands from June 24 to July 5, 2024.

Twenty people from Palestine, Eth...

Job Kleijn, Strategic advisor for water diplomacy, water and food security, explains how FAO's project "Water Productivity through Open Access of Remotely sensed derived data" (WaPOR) was created out of a practical necessity to solve problems of domestic water supply. 

The FAO, as t...

FAO, in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), organized the first hybrid training session in Algiers on June 27, 2024, for the members of the WaPOR Digitization Unit (CNWaPOR). This session is part of IWMI's action plan in Algeria, aligning with the implementa...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) held an on-the-job training in Amman, Jordan, on 12-13 June. The session is part of a training series on using WaPOR data for irrigation performance assessment in the Northern Jordan V...

The steering committee of the WaPOR project met on June 10, 2024, at the National Institute of Agronomic Research of Algeria. The purpose of the meeting was to review the implementation of activities and gather recommendations for the continuation of the project.

The presentation of the ...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) participated in the 10th World Water Forum in Bali, Indonesia, from 18 to 25 May 2024. FAO organized and co-convened several sessions that discussed crucial topics surrounding water management and sustainability, offering i...

As part of the implementation of the activities of the project "Monitoring the productivity of land and water by remote sensing" (WaPOR phase 2) funded by the government of the Netherlands, crop mapping data collection missions for season 1 were launched from 29 April to 13 May 2024 in the Mit...

As part of the implementation of activities under the WaPOR project at the Ministry of Hydraulics, the FAO project team seized the opportunity on May 13th to participate in a series of training sessions initiated by the water resources sector from April 29th to June 5th to support this initiat...

Jorge Gutierrez, WaPOR national coordinator in Colombia, presented WaPOR project at the 6th Conference on the use of space technology for water management on 7 May in Costa Rica.

His presentation introduced the WaPOR project and the publicly accessible near real time database that uses s...

The Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ) in coordination with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA), has organized a workshop to present the field data collection – crop mapping for...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) collaborated to host a co-design workshop aimed at advancing the irrigation performance assessment tool in West Al-Gharraf, Iraq on April 30th.

Technical experts from...