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.
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...
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“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...
WaPOR at the CIHEAM summer school program on EO for irrigation
19/09/2022
The International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM), a Mediterranean intergovernmental organisation composed of 13 Member States (Albania, Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia)
Introductory WaPOR training in Sudan and stakeholders meeting
15/09/2022
On the 13th and the 14th of September 2022, 24 participants (with a 50/50 gender balance), gathered at the Hydraulic Research Center in Sudan for an introductory training on WaPOR...
WaPOR at the 2022 International Forum on Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals
07/09/2022
06/09: Livia Peiser, Technical Officer for the WaPOR project at the Land and Water Division of the UN-FAO, virtually presented the project and the database at a session titled "Using open data...
The WaPOR database is going global!
01/09/2022
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands is financing another milestone for the WaPOR project.
From its current coverage of Africa and the Middle East, the database is going global! The...
WaPOR at the World Water Week
01/09/2022
This morning, in Stockholm and online, three stakeholders from the fields of water, agriculture and international cooperation connected to the WaPOR project gathered for a talk show where they discussed...
WaPOR at the world water week: Open data to support SDG6, towards UN Water Conference 2023
29/08/2022
WaPOR will be present at this year’s World Water Week in Stockholm which started on 23 August and will end on 1 September.
On the last day of the conference a...
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Letter of Agreement signed between Iraqi Ministry of Water Resources and the FAO
18/08/2022
On August 11 2022, the WaPOR project reached another milestone in Iraq with the signature of a letter of agreement that will allow both entities to work together in the...
MOOC on water productivity in practice
11/08/2022
WaterPIP is organizing a massive open online course on the different dimensions of water producitivity. In this MOOC you will learn what is water productivity as well as how to assess and...
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Inception workshop in Kenya
29/07/2022
The inception workshop for the second phase of the WaPOR project took place in Nairobi, Kenya as well as online in a hybrid format on July 26, 2022. It was...
Workshops in Mali and Burkina Faso on the use of WaPOR data for pastoralism
20/07/2022
These workshops come as a follow-up to the series of workshops that took place last year (in August 2021) at the intersection of two FAO Multi-disciplinary Fund projects: “Improving land...
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Inception workshop in Ethiopia
19/07/2022
Ethiopia is the 8th country to host an inception workshop marking the official launch of the new phase of the WaPOR project in the country. This workshop targeted newly appointed...
1st WA+ symposium held in Delft, Netherlands
15/07/2022
Water Accounting + (WA+) is a framework developed by IHE Delft and its partners, FAO and IWMI, to fill in demand of deriving information from open-access public-domain datasets to account...