Acerca de la FAO Noticias Multimedia Temas principales Estadísticas Miembros Publicaciones

WaPOR, teledetección al servicio de la productividad del agua

Noticias

Aquí encontrará todas las últimas noticias sobre el proyecto WaPOR, desde conferencias y eventos mundiales en los que participa el proyecto, hasta noticias específicas de cada país, así como nuevos recursos a disposición. 

Si desea consultar las noticias de un país específico, visite las páginas específicas de los países en la sección Actividades por país.

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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
Introductory training for Jordanian and Palestinian stakeholders
08/07/2022
A brief 3-day introductory training was held in Amman, Jordan, between the 3rd and 5th July 2022, to provide 32 Jordanian stakeholders and 6 Palestinian with the basic skills needed...
FAO DG QU Dongyu calls attention to the importance of leveraging innovation to optimize water use at the 2nd High Level International Conference in Dushanbe
09/06/2022
In his video message to governments and the international community at the plenary session of the 2nd High Level International Conference on the International Decade for Action “Water for Sustainable...
Training workshop on WaPOR database in Mali
06/06/2022
FAO in collaboration with IHE Delft organized a training workshop in Bamako, Mali from 31 May to 2 June 2022, to help government organizations increase water productivity in both irrigated...
"Introduction to remote sensing derived FAO WaPOR database" training in Baghdad
06/06/2022
Under the patronage of His Excellency Mr. Mahdi Rashid Al-Hamdani, Minister of Water Resources, the FAO Representation in Iraq held the training workshop “Introduction to remote sensing derived FAO WaPOR...
WaPOR at the 2022 Living Planet Symposium
31/05/2022
The WaPOR team attended the Living Planet Symposium which took place in Bonn, Germany from 23 to 27 May 2022 with the objective to further engage with the Earth Observation...
WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Tunisia
04/04/2022
On March 30th, a WaPOR phase 2 inception workshop was held in Tunis, Tunisia, welcoming 20 in-person participants and some online participants. Attendees came from a wide range of backgrounds...