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April 17, 2020
This blog post was written by Giriraj Amarnath, Surajit Ghosh, and Carolyn Fry at the International Water Management Institute and first published at Thrive by CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land, and Ecosystem. Take a look at the satellite map below. That vast swathe of orange and red across northwestern India and Pakistan depicts crops […]
April 16, 2020
The Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) is a data-driven technique that creates and populates spatial soil information systems by coupling field-measurements with spatial and non-spatial soil inference systems. In Africa, for example, the Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) project used the DSM approach to generate a great variety of soil property maps for the entire African […]
April 1, 2020
Report back from 2020 meeting of the Livestock Data for Decisions (LD4D) Community of Practice. The meeting centred on strategies for improving data generation and use, with a special focus on making the most of FAO’s livestock data.Read more Livestock data community deliberates strategies for impact
This article was originally posted on the Livestock Data for Decisions website | Read articleMarch 31, 2020
“Does anybody know a reliable source to extract temperature and rainfall data in 2017 and 2018 for specific locations in Burkina Faso ?” – HG
March 19, 2020
A new IWMI partnership with Digital Earth Africa (DEA) will leverage state of the art remote-sensing and data management technologies to enhance the ability of African Governments, communities and companies to better manage their water.
