FAO will be honored with the prestigious 2023 GEO SDG Award for its groundbreak...

The WaPOR Ethiopia team, in collaboration with FAO and IWMI, is currently exploring the potential applications of WaPOR in partnership with the private sector. Private sector engagement is considered a vital component of the strategic plans and activities of various ministries and agencies. Th...

From 9 to 12 October, a mission was conducted in Morocco by FAO to discuss the technical details of the implementation of the LoA with the Pole Digital. The LoA has the objective to develop geo-services for agriculture in both irrigated and rainfed areas, through the development of crop mappin...

The 24th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA* Symposium serves as a crucial platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration in the field of water resources management in Africa. Livia Peiser, representing WaPOR, participated in the virtual session "Remote Sensing for Water Accounting and Water Productivi...

The online meeting, held with the participation of 8 technical staff members from the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, IHE Delft, FAO, and IWMI, focused on crucial discussions. The primary objective was to recognize the significance of incorporating WaPOR data into the national Water Informat...

WaPOR, FAO's portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data, is migrating to the FAO Hand in Hand platform and will feature data obtained through an updated methodology (version 3.0).

On the 1st and 2nd of October 2023, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) held a co-design workshop for the irrigation performance assessment tool in West Gharraf, Iraq. 

The technical experts from t...

WaPOR inception workshop in Colombia was held last Thursday, September 21 in Bogota. The general aspects of the project, components, products and expected results were discussed with the attendees. Colombia is the first Latin-American country to implement WaPOR.

The day was divided in tw...

The WaPOR team participated to the the Nile Basin Development Forum, a high-level regional event convened every three years by the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) in collaboration with its Member States and in partnership with development partners. 

Ms Livia Peiser, Technical Officer fo...

As part of the WaPOR 2 project in Tunisia, the IHE-Delft Institute in coordination with the FAO and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), organized the "Introduction and use of WaPOR data" training course in Hammamet, from September 18 to 20, 2023.

The workshop was precede...

The second edition of the #WaPORhackathon will be held between 12-26 October 2023 and is now open for registration! 

“WaPOR Hackathon - WaPOR: Communicating data for agricultural applications” will be held from 12 to 26 October 2023. It focuses on bringing together (social) sci...

The IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education in coordination with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), organized the training “Introduction and Validation of WaPOR data” in Ramallah, Palestine, from 11 to 14 Sep...

The development of the Wheat Water Productivity tool has been progressing smoothly. The development process began with stakeholder mapping, following a series of individual and group meetings with three key stakeholders: the Ministry of Agriculture, the Agricultural Transformation Institute, a...

The Stockholm World Water Week, an annual event that brings together global experts, policymakers, and practitioners to address pressing water-related challenges, concluded its proceedings on Thursday 24 August.

This year's conference, held under the theme "Seeds of Change: Inno...

An EBRD-FAO stakeholders’ inception workshop was conducted in Jericho, Palestine to kickstart a set of activities revolving around the use of WaPOR data and ground data to work towards the maximisation of water productivity of the date palm. Around twenty-four participants gathered to dis...

On the 26 and 27 July 2023, a data validation training took place in Baghdad, Iraq. 

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On 26 July, a number of stakeholders gathered in Rabat to officially launch the LoA between the FAO and the Moroccan Digital Centre (

During the workshop for planning and fieldwork preparation for data collection, which took place from June 20th to June 22nd, 2023, two field data collection campaigns were scheduled. These campaigns aim to develop crop mapping for the sites in Jendouba and Kairouan.

The first campaign w...

The Digital Agriculture Solutions Forum 2023 was organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and International Telecommunication Union (ITU), in collaboration with CGIAR, to examine and present long-term digital agricultural transformation tools. It took plac...

On Tuesday, 4 July 2023, the WaPOR project organized a workshop in Ségou, Mali, to design a performance evaluation tool for the Office of Niger. Office water management officers, GIS specialists, as well as representatives from FAO, IWMI and the WaPOR project, participated in the workshop/
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