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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetCalipseo - An FAO platform for data and fisheries statistics 2024
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No results found.Calipseo is a tool to support FAO Members to reinforce their capacity to produce fisheries statistics for evidence-based policies making, as well as for fulfilling reporting obligations to national institutions, regional fisheries bodies or management organizations and to FAO. The tool can be deployed as a complete National Fisheries Statistics and Management Information System to manage and monitor the whole fishery sector (from small-scale to industrial fisheries), or it can be deployed partially to complement existing tools in place in the National Fisheries Authority.It supports SDG 14 in streamlining national knowledge of fisheries impact on ecosystem for sustainable management of the resource.This leaflet is a general presentation of the platform and the benefits for the stakeholders in adopting this platform. -
ProjectDatabase of South African surface water bodies, source, content and data structure 1998
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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetAfrica Open D.E.A.L: Open Data for Environment, Agriculture and Land & Africa's Great Green Wall
Towards a continental leadership on environmental data (July 2021)
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the African Union Commission (AUC) led a land-use data collection and analysis between 2018 and 2020. With the support of the Panafrican Agency of the Great Green Wall (GGW), the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and 30 African countries, FAO and the AUC coordinated the data collection operation on a scale unseen before in agriculture, environment, and land use. The Africa Open D.E.A.L (Data for Environment, Agriculture and Land) initiative has made Africa the first continent to complete the collection of accurate, comprehensive, and harmonized digital land use and land-use change data. It provides a detailed snapshot of the continent, captured through more than 300 000 sampling points collected by 350 operators in two years. Analysts were trained to use Collect Earth, an open-source tool developed by FAO with the support of Google. Over 100 parameters were collected on each sampling point of about 0.5 hectares, including tree counts, farmlands, wildfires, and existing infrastructure. Data were analyzed to highlight land-use change over the past 20 years and the potential for restoration at the national level for every country. The very high-resolution imagery allowed analysts to assess places with difficult field accessibility. The data survey has revealed 7 billion previously unrecorded trees outside forests for the first time, among other findings of the first consistent land use representation of the continent, and discloses more forests and more arable lands than were previously detected. This fact-based information finds that the area of the continental Great Green Wall initiative has 393 million hectares of land with restoration potential and opportunities and that 350 million hectares of cropland are cultivated in Africa, more than double that of the European Union. The survey exposes huge opportunities for the management of the environment, agriculture, and land use in Africa, and increases countries’ ability to track changes and conduct analyses for informed sustainable production, restoration interventions, and climate action. Africa Open DEAL data and information are embedded within FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative geospatial platform and are accessible to anyone through EarthMap.org.
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