WaPOR news
Here find all the latest news about the WaPOR project, from conferences and global events the project participates in, to country-specific news as well as new resources as they become available.
Note that country pages offer a filtered view of the news if you wish to focus on news for a partner country of WaPOR phase 2 and the evolution of the project in the country.
WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Mozambique
01/04/2022
On March 29th, a WaPOR phase 2 inception workshop was held in Maputo, Mozambique, welcoming 31 participants, both in person and virtually, from a wide range of backgrounds and institutions...
WaPOR data for groundwater monitoring
16/03/2022
Several parts of the world rely on groundwater for different essential uses for society: agriculture, domestic use and services. In the Azraq groundwater basin, in Jordan, that is certainly the...
WaPOR, an "Initiative Dakar 2022" project at the World Water Forum
16/03/2022
From March 21 to 26, the 9th edition of the World Water Forum will take place in Dakar, Sénégal. This year's organising commitee seeks to make this of edition a...
WaPOR at the second Baghdad International Water Conference on March 5
02/03/2022
The city of Baghdad, capital of Iraq, a WaPOR 2 partner country, will host stakeholders of the water community from all over the world, and particularly from the MENA region...
WaPORACT: open-access tools to extract, interpret, analyze and visualize geodata to improve water productivity
14/02/2022
WaPORACT was created by FAO partner, eLEAF, to support the development of customized geodata services in Africa and the Near East. It is a suite of Python tools that permit...
WAFIRR (Water For IRRigation): a new mobile application in development in Jordan
20/01/2022
The Jordanian National Agricultural Research Center (NARC) and the FAO have formalized a partnership in the creation of an irrigation mobile application using WaPOR data.
The letter of agreement was...
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WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Iraq
16/12/2021
On December 14th, a WaPOR phase 2 inception workshop was held in Baghdad, Iraq, welcoming 50 in-person and 39 virtual participants from a wide range of backgrounds and institutions: the...
WaPOR phase 2 kick-off event “From satellites to fields. Innovations supporting farmers”, Q&A
29/11/2021
On the 22nd of November, the Land and Water Division at FAO hosted the webinar “From satellites to fields. Innovations supporting farmers” to officially kick-off the second phase of the...
WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Algeria
26/11/2021
On November 24th, a WaPOR phase 2 inception workshop was held in Alger, Algeria, welcoming 36 in-person participants from a wide range of backgrounds and institutions: the ministry of agriculture...
Webinar “From satellites to fields. Innovations supporting farmers”, 22 November 2021
16/11/2021
The FAO Land and Water Division invites you to the webinar “From satellites to fields. Innovations supporting farmers” organized on 22 November 2021, from 12.30 to 14.00 (Central European Time,...
WaPOR and WaterPIP at the 2021 Cairo Water Week
01/11/2021
On October 27, the FAO hosted a session at the Cairo Water Week that explored the use of remote-sensing data titled: Water Productivity Improvement in Practice from Remote Sensing Data...
WaPOR recognized as a Digital Public Good
29/10/2021
We are delighted to announce that WaPOR has been reviewed by the Digital Public Goods Alliance (DPGA) and has been found to be a digital public good in alignment with...
WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Mali
30/09/2021
The 28th of September the third inception workshop of the second phase of the WaPOR project was held in Bamako. So far, inception workshops have been held in Jordan, Sudan...
WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Sudan
11/09/2021
The WaPOR project, now in its second phase, is more demand-driven than the first. It focuses on ten partner countries in which activities start with an inception phase punctuated by...
WaPOR trainings in four French speaking Sahelian countries
28/08/2021
In the framework of the FAO Multidisciplinary Fund “Improving land and water productivity in the Sudano-Sahelian belt” project, a WaPOR training was held from 22 to 24 September in Saly,...
WaPOR at the World Water Week 2021: real time water data from satellites to achieve faster resilience
23/08/2021
WaPOR data, which is derived from remotely-sensed (satellite) data, can support in making our agricultural systems more resilient, that is, ones that can better withstand and recover from shocks and...
Trainings on WaPOR in the Sudano-Sahelian Belt to cope with water scarcity in agriculture
26/07/2021
The Sudano-Sahelian region of Africa is facing serious environmental and socioeconomic challenges posing a real threat to food security and poverty in many countries. Indeed, desertification exacerbated by climate change,...
New case study on the use of WAPOR in the new FAO publication “Climate-smart agriculture case studies 2021 - Projects from around the world”
12/07/2021
The new FAO publication “Climate-smart agriculture case studies 2021 - Projects from around the world” presents Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) case studies from around the world, showing how the approach is...
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Inception workshop in Jordan
09/07/2021
Jordan is one of the ten partner countries of the WaPOR 2 project. On July 7th, the project’s inception workshop, the first of this second phase, was held in Amman,...
Webinar "Remote sensing for water productivity: WaPOR applications and data quality in Gezira irrigation system, Sudan", 1 June 2021, 14:00-15:30 CEST
20/05/2021
The WaPOR project aims to assist partner countries in developing their capacity to monitor and improve water and land productivity in agriculture, responding therefore to the challenges that are posed...