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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetBrochureEvaluation of irrigation infrastructure, crop mapping and estimation of agricultural water use in Libya (IagWat) 2023
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No results found.In Libya, there is a need to strengthen national capacities to monitor water consumption and productivity through remote sensing and to adopt effective options for increasing water productivity in Fezzan region, as a pilot to be scaled up throughout the country. The impact of this project is that food security in the region is improved through effective use of agricultural water. -
Book (series)Evaluation reportMid-term evaluation of the project "Monitoring water productivity by remote sensing as a tool to assess possibilities to reduce water productivity gaps
Project code: GCP/INT/229/NET
2020Also available in:
No results found.While population growth and economic development are putting unprecedented pressure on renewable, but finite water resources, especially in arid regions, scarce land and water resources are affecting food security and sustainable water management. FAO identified the need to implement a digital database built upon remote sensing and information technologies that can monitor and report on agricultural water productivity over Africa and Near East, accessible through the FAO Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data portal (WaPOR). The WaPOR database is now operational at continental level (all African and Near East countries covered by the 250 m spatial resolution data), national level (two beneficiary countries can access the WaPOR database at 100 m resolution) and subnational level with a spatial resolution of about 30 m, so far including eight areas of interest (river basins or irrigation schemes). Water Accounting Plus (WA+) reports based on remote sensing have been completed for three river basins as planned (Litani in Lebanon, Awash in Ethiopia and Jordan basin). An action framework at national level for capacity building and participatory decision making is currently being developed to make effective a “demand-driven” approach based on national and local needs. -
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BookletCorporate general interestThe Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL) 2024
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2025Also available in:
No results found.The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) developed the Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL) dataset in the late 1990s to address a critical need in the growing field of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for accurate representations of political sub-national administrative boundaries. GAUL became a successful story and an important asset of FAO’s geospatial infrastructure, widely regarded for its ease of use, accuracy, and well-defined updating protocol, which included regular annual releases. Disseminated through the FAO GeoNetwork, it played a significant role in supporting numerous research projects and knowledge-based products within FAO and beyond. In addition to visualizing sub-national boundaries, GAUL was instrumental in mapping sub-national statistics across the thematic areas of FAO's work. Unfortunately, updates to the dataset were discontinued in 2015, and despite its wide usage and a large user community, no further versions were subsequently released.With the launch of the FAO Agro-Informatics Platform (AIP), FAO unlocked millions of geospatial data layers from different domains and sources, including food security indicators and agricultural statistics, with the objective to serve as the key enabling tool for FAO's Hand-In-Hand (HIH) Initiative and stakeholders working in the food and agriculture sector. The Organization decided thus to revitalize the GAUL project. This technical guidelines details the technical content and use of the GAUL dataset. -
Book (stand-alone)Manual / guideSoil testing methods manual
Doctors Global Programme – A farmer-to-farmer training programme
2020Also available in:
The Soil Doctors programme is developed under the umbrella of the Global Soil Partnership and promotes the establishment of a farmer-to-farmer training system. The Soil Doctors Global Programme aims to build the capacity of smallholder farmers on the practice of sustainable soil management and, by doing so, support governmental agencies and organizations working on agricultural extension at the field level (promoting broader impact and a reduction of costs). Trainings will also rely on the establishment of demonstration farms and experimental fields by the Soil Doctors, which might attract the interest of research institutes and universities involved in the programme. The programme also aims to educate farmers on soil science principles for practices of sustainable soil management and aims to achieve this by providing them with a set of tools composed of some educational materials and a soil testing methods (STM) manual for preliminary soil analysis. The STM is a collection of locally relevant, and easy to use, soil analyses procedures that would be selected by each area where the program is implemented. -
Book (stand-alone)Technical bookتعزيز الكفاءة والإنتاجية الزراعية على المستوى الأفريقي والعالمي
تقييم حالة و أداء و نطاق حصاد المياه المخصصة للزراعةفي كل من أوغندا و بركينا فاسو و المغرب
2016يشكل التقييم الوارد في هذا التقرير جزءاً من مشروع « تعزيز كفاءة استخدام المياه المخصصة للزراعة وإنتاجيتها على مستوى أفريقيا والعالم » والذي يهدف إلى الحد من الجوع والفقر في ثلاثة بلدان أفريقية )بوركينا فاسو والمغرب وأوغندا( من خال التركيز على تحسين إدارة المياه المخصصة للزراعة وتعميم مراعاة إدارة المياه المخصصة للزراعة في أطر العمل والعمليات على المستوى الوطني. وبصفة خاصة، يسهم هذا التقرير في المخرج الثالث للمشروع: تحسين كفاءة حصاد المياه المخصصة للزراعة في بوركينا فاسو والمغرب وأوغندا. ويستهدف هذا التقييم المرشدين الزراعيين في مجال المياه المخصصة للزراعة والخبراء الفنيين، ويوفر لهم مؤشرات واضحة حول كيفية تحسين كفاءة حصاد المياه المخصصة للإنتاج الزراعي في البلدان الثلاثة الخاضعة للدراسة، إلى جانب مؤشرات تتعلق بكيفية اختيار تقنيات مجدية لحصاد المياه بحيث تلائم مناطق جغرافية مختلفة. ويمثل تقييماً لحالة حصاد المياه المخصصة للزراعة وأدائه ونطاقه في البلدان الثلاثة ويوفر سجلاً للتقنيات مع مدى ملاءمتها وجدوى تطبيقها ضمن ظروف تلك البلدان