The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launched today a training on the utilization of GIS for improving forest fires prevention, early detection, control and documentation.

This training falls within the activities of “Enhancing the capacity of the forestry sector to control and manage forest fires in Jordan” project which addresses the country technical capacity needs and support in regards to forest fire management.

The objective of the training is to build and enhance the Ministry of Agriculture/Forestry Department experts and other key stakeholders on utilizing GIS (e.g. GPS) to improve forest fire management.