FAO workshop on the sidelines of the Libya International Exhibition for Agricultural and Livestock Development

FAO organized a national workshop on Agricultural Development through Remote Sensing Technologies in Libya in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock and the Ministry of Water Resources. This event was organized during the second day of the four-days Libya International Exhibition for Agricultural and Livestock Development and its Supplies that is an important opportunity to promote agricultural and animal production in Libya and raise awareness of the importance of these sectors in achieving economic and social development in the country. This important platform presented the latest technological developments, innovative products and services and showed the available capabilities in the agricultural sector in Libya.

This workshop was conducted as part of the Capacity Development Program within the framework of the two ongoing FAO projects: “Monitoring, evaluation and rationalization of water use for agriculture sector in Libya” funded by Italian Agency for Development Cooperation (AICS) and the “Evaluation of irrigation infrastructure, crop mapping and estimation of agricultural water use in Libya” funded by African Development Bank (AfDB).

Six lectures have been presented and discussed for all the attendance nearly fifty-five participants with the overall aim to strengthen national capacities to launch agricultural development in general and to monitor water consumption and productivity through remote sensing by adopting effective options for increasing water productivity throughout all the country.

The participants welcomed the expected MerWat-Libya from FAO projects: the national platform for monitoring, evaluation and rationalization of agricultural water and land use in Libya that will contribute for building national capacities in monitoring the agricultural water use through remote sensing and the adoption of effective steps that contribute to achieving food security, poverty reduction, and resilience to climate change by ameliorating water collection, distribution and use in agricultural production.