| Project's full title |
Hand-in-Hand Geospatial platform |
| Start date |
30/06/2020 |
| Status |
Ongoing |
| Objective / Goal |
FAO's open-access Hand in Hand (HIH) Geospatial Platform provides advanced information, including food security indicators and agricultural statistics, for more targeted agriculture interventions.
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| Partners |
The data has been sourced from FAO and other leading public data providers across the UN and NGOs, academia, private sector and space agencies, including key FAO flagship databases such as FAOSTAT data on food and agriculture for over 245 countries and territories from 1961 to the most recent year available.
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| Beneficiaries |
The platform unlocks millions of data layers from different domains and sources to serve as the key enabling tool for FAO's HiH Initiative and serve digital agriculture experts, economists, government and non-government agencies, and other stakeholders working in the food and agriculture sector.
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| Activities |
The Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform, led by the Digitalization and Informatics Division's Agroinformatics team, is a digital public good that helps analyze and compare data on food and agriculture, so that interventions can be more targeted to reduce poverty, hunger and increase economic development.
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| Impact |
Since the launch of the platform in 2020, over 65 countries and institutions have participated in workshops to learn how leveraging data and technology can contribute to digital agriculture transformation and rural development.
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| Contact |
[email protected]
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