Africa: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launches Hand-in-Hand geospatial data platform to help build stronger food and agriculture sectors post COVID-19
One million geospatial layers and thousands of statistics for over ten food and agriculture-related domains
ROME, Italy, July 21, 2020/ -- The Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today launched
the Hand-in-Hand geospatial platform with a large and rich set of data on food, agriculture, socioeconomics, and natural resources to help strengthen evidence-based decision-making in the food and agriculture sectors.
The platform is a crucial tool for all efforts to build back better and create more resilient food systems post COVID-19.
It boosts over one million geospatial layers and thousands of statistics series with over 4,000 metadata records, bringing together geographic
information and statistical data on over ten domains linked to food and
agriculture - from food security, crops, soil, land, water, climate,
fisheries, livestock to forestry. It also includes information on
COVID-19's impact on food and agriculture.
The data has been sourced from FAO and other leading public data
providers across the UN and NGOs, academia, private sector and space
agencies. It also incorporates FAOSTAT data on food and agriculture for
over 245 countries and territories from 1961 to the most recent year
available.
"Geospatial technologies and agricultural data represent an opportunity
to find new ways of reducing hunger and poverty through more accessible
and integrated data-driven solutions," said FAO Director-General, QU
Dongyu.
"The Geospatial Platform serves as a digital public good to create
interactive data maps, analyze trends and identify real-time gaps and
opportunities," added the FAO chief.
The platform can be used by anyone and its application will in turn help data-driven and evidence-based decision-making in food and agriculture.
Amongst its many uses, the platform provides vital information to:
monitor agricultural water productivity, including agricultural systems at risk due to human pressure on land and water;compare human population density to distribution of cattle or compare density between two livestock species around the world;ascertain aquatic species distribution;analyse precipitation trends;analyse information from national forest monitoring systems that
show distribution of forest resources with other geospatial data such as the road network. This allows the separation of undisturbed forest
areas that have high conservation value from accessible areas that are
more suitable for restoration or production.
"The geospatial platform will allow us to design more targeted
agricultural interventions and investment plans through a territorial
approach - an approach that fosters equality, inclusion and sustainable
food and nutrition security," said FAO's Chief Economist Maximo Torero.
FAO will add new datasets and country- and domain-specific case studies
to the platform to improve targeting and tailoring of policy
interventions, innovation, finance and investment, and institutional
reform in food and agriculture.
The platform is part of FAO's Hand-in-Hand initiative - an evidence-based, country-led and country-owned initiative aimed at
accelerating agricultural transformation and sustainable rural
development to eradicate poverty (SDG1) and end hunger and all forms of
malnutrition (SDG2), including through the use of the most sophisticated tools available such as advanced geo-spatial modeling and analytics.
Africa: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launches Hand-in-Hand geospatial data platform to help build stronger food and agriculture sectors post COVID-19
Africa: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launches Hand-in-Hand geospatial data platform to help build stronger food and agriculture sectors post COVID-19
Africa: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launches Hand-in-Hand geospatial data platform to help build stronger food and agriculture sectors post COVID-19
Africa: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launches Hand-in-Hand geospatial data platform to help build stronger food and agriculture sectors post COVID-19
Africa: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) launches Hand-in-Hand geospatial data platform to help build stronger food and agriculture sectors post COVID-19
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