As part of the WaPOR 2 project activities in Tunisia, a training workshop on the WaPOR concept and validation took place from November 21 to 22, 2023, at the Novotel Hotel in Tunis. The workshop aimed to achieve specific objectives, including refreshing participants on the WaPOR database, its ...

WaPOR, formally “Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data”, monitors land and water productivity by remote sensing. The project was recognized by its groundbreaking contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the fifth annual

The Group on Earth Observation (GEO) is a partnership of more than 100 national governments and more than 100 participating organizations, among which FAO, that promotes full and open access to Earth observation data, information and knowledge. Ministers of the GEO member governments and organ...

As part of the WaPOR 2 project activities in Algeria, a WaPOR concept and validation training workshop was held from 7 to 8 November 2023 at the Algerian National Institute for Agronomic Research in Algiers. The main objective of the workshop was to train managers from the agriculture, water r...

The WaPOR phase 2 project organized the regional training "QGIS and WaPOR for Water Productivity and Irrigation performance", as part of the capacity development component and supported by the Knowledge Hub of Kenya at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT). ...

After another successful hackathon, SENBIO, a team composed of Jonathan Ghebremedhin, Lokhendra Rathore, Bethelhem Demeke,  Ethiopia B. Zeleke emerged as the winner with an idea anchored in the combination of WaPOR data and AI to help manage regional crop uncertainty in the context of glo...

FAO will be honored with the prestigious 2023 GEO SDG Award for its groundbreak...

The WaPOR Ethiopia team, in collaboration with FAO and IWMI, is currently exploring the potential applications of WaPOR in partnership with the private sector. Private sector engagement is considered a vital component of the strategic plans and activities of various ministries and agencies. Th...

From 9 to 12 October, a mission was conducted in Morocco by FAO to discuss the technical details of the implementation of the LoA with the Pole Digital. The LoA has the objective to develop geo-services for agriculture in both irrigated and rainfed areas, through the development of crop mappin...

The 24th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA* Symposium serves as a crucial platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration in the field of water resources management in Africa. Livia Peiser, representing WaPOR, participated in the virtual session "Remote Sensing for Water Accounting and Water Productivi...

WaPOR, FAO's portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data, is migrating to the FAO Hand in Hand platform and will feature data obtained through an updated methodology (version 3.0).

On the 1st and 2nd of October 2023, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) held a co-design workshop for the irrigation performance assessment tool in West Gharraf, Iraq. 

The technical experts from t...

WaPOR inception workshop in Colombia was held last Thursday, September 21 in Bogota. The general aspects of the project, components, products and expected results were discussed with the attendees. Colombia is the first Latin-American country to implement WaPOR.

The day was divided in tw...

The WaPOR team participated to the the Nile Basin Development Forum, a high-level regional event convened every three years by the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) in collaboration with its Member States and in partnership with development partners. 

Ms Livia Peiser, Technical Officer fo...

As part of the WaPOR 2 project in Tunisia, the IHE-Delft Institute in coordination with the FAO and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), organized the "Introduction and use of WaPOR data" training course in Hammamet, from September 18 to 20, 2023.

The workshop was precede...

The second edition of the #WaPORhackathon will be held between 12-26 October 2023 and is now open for registration! 

“WaPOR Hackathon - WaPOR: Communicating data for agricultural applications” will be held from 12 to 26 October 2023. It focuses on bringing together (social) sci...

The IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education in coordination with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), organized the training “Introduction and Validation of WaPOR data” in Ramallah, Palestine, from 11 to 14 Sep...

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...

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...

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...