Eventos
24/ 8
2023
WaPOR at the 2023 Stockholm Water Week
(Sweden), Evento híbrido, 24/08/2023
The session will present the benefits of integrating geospatial data in water information and statistics but also the barriers and main challenges for the uptake of geospatial tools, including technical, financial and governance issues. The session will also highlight current innovative approaches that integrates geospatial data in water information and statistics and discuss the way forward to...
8/ 8
2023
26/ 7
2023
26/ 7
2023
27/7
2023
11/ 7
2023
13/7
2023
WaPOR at the Digital Agriculture Solutions Forum 2023
11/07/2023 - 13/07/2023
The Digital Agriculture Solutions Forum 2023 was organized by FAO and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in collaboration with CGIAR, to examine and present long-term digital agricultural transformation tools. It took place between the 11 and 13 of July in Amman, Jordan.
4/ 7
2023
Irrigation performance tool co-creation workshop in Ségou, Mali
04/07/2023
The WaPOR project organized a workshop in Ségou on Tuesday July 4 to design a performance evaluation tool for the Office of Niger. Participants included Office water management officers, GIS specialists, as well as representatives from FAO, IWMI and the WaPOR project.
3/ 7
2023
21/7
2023
29/ 6
2023
Tool co-design and co-creation workshop Kenya
29/06/2023
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) recently spearheaded the first Co-Design and Co-Creation Workshop in Kenya as part of the WaPOR Project. This initiative brought together stakeholders from various organizations, including the Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, the National Irrigation Authority, the Water Resour...
19/ 6
2023
20/6
2023
WaPOR-based tool co-development workshop was held in Jordan
19/06/2023 - 20/06/2023
On 19 and 20 June 2023, FAO in collaboration with IWMI conducted a 2-days workshop in Dead Sea, Jordan: the "WaPOR-based tool co-development workshop". Seventeen participa...
16/ 6
2023
National training workshop to support gender equality and women’s empowerment in Libya
16/06/2023
The Ministry of Water Resources in Tripoli, Libya, with the support of Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) office for Libya, organized a national workshop training on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
15/ 6
2023
New course on WaPOR Concepts and Validation by IHE-Delft
Evento virtual, 15/06/2023
IHE-Delft has published a new OpenCourseWare on WaPOR Concepts and Validation, available from 15 June.
This course aims to provide a better understanding of the theoretical concepts used to generate remote sensing based data on evapotranspiration and biomass production inclu...
6/ 6
2023
FAO signed an agreement with the government of Egypt to launch WaPOR phase 2 in the country
06/06/2023
The agreement was signed during a ceremony held at the headquarters of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation (MWRI) in the New Administrative Capital, by Prof. Dr. Hani Sewilam, Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, and Mr. Nasr El-Din Hag Elamin, Representative of the FAO in Egypt. The ceremony was also attended by representatives of the Embassy of The Netherlands, resource part...
29/ 5
2023
1/6
2023
Algeria: an IWMI mission in May 2023
29/05/2023 - 01/06/2023
A mission to facilitate the implementation of the WaPOR 2 project tools in the irrigated area of the Mitidja plain in Algeria, was held from 29 May to 1 June 2023. The members of the Advisory Committee of the WaPOR project in Algeria, Mr Makram Belhaj Fraj, Expert from the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations’ (FAO) col...
18/ 5
2023
20/5
2023
Irrigation performance tool co-design workshop in Mozambique
18/05/2023 - 20/05/2023
The WaPOR project conducted a co-design workshop from 18th to 20th May 2023, facilitated by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and FAO. The primary focus of the workshop was to identify the information requirements of stakeholders for the irrigation performance tool, aiming to support their decision-making processes. Key topics discussed included the co-development of...
10/ 5
2023
FAO Experts Showcase Advances in Land and Water Management at European Space Agency Workshop on High Resolution Thermal Satellite Imagery
10/05/2023
The European Space Agency (ESA) recently organized the International Workshop on High-Resolution Thermal Earth Observation (EO), where experts from FAO shared their work in land and water management. Livia Peiser, the Technical Officer of the WaPOR project at the FAO's Land and Water Division, delivered a keynote presentation emphasizing the importance of utilizing high-resolution the...
10/ 5
2023
FAO signed an agreement with the government of Morocco to launch WaPOR phase 2 in the country
10/05/2023
On 4 May 2023, the WaPOR project reached another country with the signature of a letter of agreement in Morocco during the Salon de l’Agriculture International de Meknès (SIAM). The LoA will last until the second half of 2025, that is almost until the end of WaPOR Phase 2, and will ensure the development of water and agriculture geo-services in the basin of Oum Er Rbia using WaPOR data and meth...
6/ 5
2023
WaPOR at the 3rd Baghdad International Water Conference
06/05/2023
Jippe Hoogeveen, a staff of the Land and Water division at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Chief Technical Officer for the WaPOR project, recently attended the third Baghdad International Water Conference held between May 6 and 7, 2023.
5/ 5
2023
Presentation: WaPOR database version 3.0 and the new WaPOR portal
Evento híbrido, 05/05/2023
Presentation event where attendees will be introduced to the new WaPOR database (version 3.0) and the new WaPOR portal, with user experiences in the use of WaPOR data.
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2023
5/5
2023
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2023
21/4
2023