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.
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Webinar Series on Using the WaPOR Portal
30/07/2024
As FAO’s WaPOR Portal started covering Pakistan with continuously updating evapotranspiration (ET) and ...
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Remote sensing for agricultural water management - PyWaPOR training
05/07/2024
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On-the-job training series in Jordan: Using WaPOR data for irrigation performance assessment
13/06/2024
On 12 and 13 June 2024, FAO in collaboration with the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), conducted a on-the-job training session in Amman, Jordan. The session is part of the training series on the use of WaPOR data for irrigation performance assessment in the Northern Jorda...
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Steering Committee Meeting of the WaPOR Project in Algeria
10/06/2024
The steering committee of the WaPOR project met on June 10, 2024, at the National Institute of Agronomic Research of Algeria. The purpose of the meeting was to review the implementation of activities and gather recommendations for the continuation of the project.
The presentation of the ...
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WaPOR participation at the 10th World Water Forum
05/06/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) participated in the 10th World Water Forum in Bali, Indonesia, from 18 to 25 May 2024. FAO organized and co-convened several sessions that discussed crucial topics surrounding water management and sustainability, offering i...
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Animation of the Wat Count game at the Ministry of Water Resources in Algeria
13/05/2024
As part of the implementation of activities under the WaPOR project at the Ministry of Hydraulics, the FAO project team seized the opportunity on May 13th to participate in a series of training sessions initiated by the water resources sector from April 29th to June 5th to support this initiat...
![Crop mapping data collection missions in Algeria for the Mitidja Plain season 1](/images/waporlibraries/banners/image189506b18-e769-46ef-baed-d6c6889a9966.tmb-th600x400.jpg?Culture=en&sfvrsn=56bf288_11)
Crop mapping data collection missions in Algeria for the Mitidja Plain season 1
13/05/2024
As part of the implementation of the activities of the project "Monitoring the productivity of land and water by remote sensing" (WaPOR phase 2) funded by the government of the Netherlands, crop mapping data collection missions for season 1 were launched from 29 April to 13 May 2024 in the Mit...
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WaPOR presented at the 6th Conference on the use of space technology for water management in Costa Rica
08/05/2024
Jorge Gutierrez, WaPOR national coordinator in Colombia, presented WaPOR project at the 6th Conference on the use of space technology for water management on 7 May in Costa Rica.
His presentation introduced the WaPOR project and the publicly accessible near real time database that uses s...
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Workshop to present the field data collection – crop mapping for the winter season in the Jericho and Jordan Valley Governorate, Palestine
02/05/2024
The Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem (ARIJ) in coordination with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Palestinian Water Authority (PWA), has organized a workshop to present the field data collection – crop mapping for...
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FAO and IWMI Host Co-Design Workshop for WaPOR-Based Irrigation Performance Assessment Tool in West Al-Gharraf, Iraq
30/04/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) collaborated to host a co-design workshop aimed at advancing the irrigation performance assessment tool in West Al-Gharraf, Iraq on April 30th.
Technical experts from...
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WaPOR presented during FAO's technical session at the WSTA 15th Gulf Water Conference in Doha, Qatar
29/04/2024
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosted a technical session "Leveraging Geospatial Technology to Bridge the Data Gap for Efficient Management of Agricultural Water" at the WSTA 15th Gulf Water Conference, which took place on 28 April 2024 in Doha, Qatar. <...
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Training workshop on crop mapping in Jendouba and Kairouan, Tunisia
26/04/2024
As part of the first component of the WaPOR 2 project, focused on "Development and provision of high-resolution data (20 m)," the project's National Technical Team conducted two data collection campaigns on crop types in the targeted project areas, namely Jendouba and Kairouan. The first ...
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New WaPOR knowledge package in the GEO Knowledge Hub
23/04/2024
The GEO Knowledge Hub team, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), organized a webinar to present WaPOR, FAO's Portal to Monitor Water Productivity through Open Access of Remotely Sensed Derived Data.
The webinar was held by FAO colleagues Livia Peiser, Senior...
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Sudan: Drought Monitoring co-development workshop
22/04/2024
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), in collaboration with the FAO Sudan office, conducted a co-design workshop for a drought monitoring tool on April 22, 2024. The event took place at the ILRI compass in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the Monitoring Water Productivity (WaPOR pha...
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New MOOC "Introduction to WaPORv3" is now available
09/04/2024
A new MOOC on Introduction to WaPORv3 is now available and anyone can register and follow the course at their own pace.
The course has four parts:
- Introduction to WaPOR v3
- The WaPOR portal v3
- WaPORDL: Download WaPOR v3 data
- WaPOR spati...
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Workshop to co-design an agricultural drought monitoring platform in Mali
21/03/2024
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI), in collaboration with the Direction Nationale de l'Agriculture (DNA) and with the support of FAO, have organized a workshop to co-develop an agricultural drought monitoring and management platform using WaPOR remote sensing data.
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First training in Colombia: “Introduction to WaPOR data”
18/03/2024
From 13 to 15 March 2024, a WaPOR data introduction training was held in Bogotá, Colombia. The Institute for Water Education (IHE-Delft) organized the activity in collaboration with FAO.
Entities such as the National Planning Department, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Agricul...
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New high-resolution areas in Egypt, Mozambique and Kenya available in WaPOR v3 portal
18/03/2024
Three new high-resolution areas are now available on WaPOR v3 portal for the subnational level in Northern Egypt (Egypt), Baixo Limpopo (Mozambique), and Mwea, Tana and Bura (Kenya).
High-resolution areas (level 3) at 20 mt can be used to assess the functioning of irrigation systems to p...
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WaPOR 2 inception workshop in Pakistan was held on 4 March
04/03/2024
WaPOR 2 inception workshop was held in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Monday 4 March 2024.
The workshop was attended by 51 participants from different fields and all over the country, including 4 provinces. The participants were actively involved to enhance the understandin...