1.1. Digital for impact: digital capabilities as accelerators to support the transformation of agrifood systems 9
1.1.2. Collaborations on FAO major corporate platforms
“Timely, reliable, accurate and comparable data from many partners and across the Organization are needed to identify opportunities, design interventions, monitoring progress, early warning and evaluate impact of activities in food and agriculture.”
Karl Morteo
In 2022, FAO developed and/or improved several datasets, platforms and applications across different programme areas.
Aquastat, WaPOR, Climate Info Tool, Aquamaps and Water Accounting
• The AQUAMAPS platform supports global and regional assessments related to water and agriculture and is the global spatial database that complements AQUASTAT statistical data, giving access to internationally recognized global and regional spatial datasets on water resources and agriculture water management, including hydrological basins, rivers, dams, irrigation areas, soil moisture, aridity, precipitation, evapotranspiration, weather for agriculture and more. The Water Accounting portal supports water accounting in river basins and water productivity measurement in irrigation projects. The Asian Development Bank, IHE Delft Institute and IWMI have worked together to integrate spatially disaggregated data and trends in water availability, consumption and productivity in key selected areas in the world. FAO is responsible for the further integration and publication of the data online, through the AQUAMAPS Water Accounting portal.
• The Climate Information Tool (CIT) is an interactive tool to query long-term mean monthly climate data.
The CIT dataset covers the global land surface at a 10-minute spatial resolution for the period 1961–1990.
The tool displays the latitude, longitude and elevation of the chosen location and several climate variables per month (average over the period 1961–1990) related to: precipitation, temperature, relative humidity, sunshine, wind speed and reference evapotranspiration.
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