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...

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...

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted a technical session "Leveraging Geospatial Technology to Bridge the Data Gap for Efficient Management of Agricultural Water" at the WSTA 15th Gulf Water Conference, which took place on 28 April 2024 in Doha, Qatar. <...

As part of the first component of the WaPOR 2 project, focused on "Development and provision of high-resolution data (20 m)," the project's National Technical Team conducted two data collection campaigns on crop types in the targeted project areas, namely Jendouba and Kairouan. The first ...

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), in collaboration with the FAO Sudan office, conducted a co-design workshop for a drought monitoring tool on April 22, 2024. The event took place at the ILRI compass in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the Monitoring Water Productivity (WaPOR pha...

A new MOOC on Introduction to WaPORv3 is now available and anyone can register and follow the course at their own pace. 

The course has four parts:

• Introduction to WaPOR v3
  
• The WaPOR portal v3
  
• WaPORDL: Download WaPOR v3 data
  
• WaPOR spati...

The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), in collaboration with the Direction Nationale de l'Agriculture (DNA) and with the support of FAO, have organized a workshop to co-develop an agricultural drought monitoring and management platform using WaPOR remote sensing data.

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From 13 to 15 March 2024, a WaPOR data introduction training was held in Bogotá, Colombia. The Institute for Water Education (IHE-Delft) organized the activity in collaboration with FAO. 

Entities such as the National Planning Department, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agricul...

Three new high-resolution areas are now available on WaPOR v3 portal for the subnational level in Northern Egypt (Egypt), Baixo Limpopo (Mozambique), and Mwea, Tana and Bura (Kenya).

High-resolution areas (level 3) at 20 mt can be used to assess the functioning of irrigation systems to p...

WaPOR 2 inception workshop was held in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday 4 March 2024.

The workshop was attended by 51 participants from different fields and all over the country, including 4 provinces. The participants were actively involved to enhance the understandin...

Within the framework of the implementation of the activities of the project "Monitoring land and water productivity by remote sensing WaPOR phase 2" financed by the government of the Netherlands, a regional QGIS training for water productivity analysis is organized by the Food and Ag...

On 8 February 2024, the WaPOR team visited the project area in Jendouba, in Tunisia. Jendouba is one of the two Tunisian high-resolution areas, available at 20m resolution on the new WaPOR portal. The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) installed humidity sensors last January, with...

FAO's portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open-access of Remotely sensed derived data (WaPOR) was presented during the Digitalisation Session of the 5th Mediterranean Forum, held from 5 to 7 February in Tunis, Tunisia.

The portal was presented as an example to improve agricultu...

Between 4 and 7 February, WaPOR hosted a regional training in Jordan including participants from Jordan itself, Iraq, Palestine and Egypt. 

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Last November, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) signed an agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) of Ethiopia to support the Irrigation management information system (IMISET) in the country.

IMISET is a web-based information system run by the Min...

2023 has been a full year for WaPOR!

Our involvement in key events like the UN Water Con...

In January 2024, the FAO, in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), conducted the second on-the-job training of the series on the use of WaPOR data for irrigation performance assessment in the north Jordan Valley. Nine technical staff fro...

La FAO, en collaboration avec l'Institut international de gestion de l'eau (IWMI), a lancé une série de formations sur le terrain portant sur l'utilisation des données de télédétection WaPOR pour l'évaluation des performances de l'irrigation dans la vallée du nord de la ...