Autor: Amelia Fernandez
13 mayo 2022
Succesful Field Visit of FutureWater to the APSAN-Vale Project in Mozambique
In April, Vera Hollander, Water Management Expert at FutureWater, visited Mozambique for the APSAN-Vale project. This project will demonstrate what the best combinations are of adoption strategies and technological packages, with the largest overall impact in terms of Water Productivity, both at the plot-level, sub-basin as well as basin-level. The project has as its overall aim to…
5 mayo 2022
Training on Real Water Savings finished for Bangladesh, China and Indonesia
Last month, FutureWater concluded training programs on Real Water Savings for Bangladesh, China and Indonesia. This training was part of the project ‘Delivering Training on Real Water Savings (ReWaS) for the Regional Water Scarcity Program in Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Thailand and China’ that FutureWater is rolling out in cooperation with the Regional Office for Asia…
26 abril 2022
Completado satisfactoriamente el primer módulo de capacitación en análisis geoespacial en Zambia
Last week, first module of the Nuffic TMT training course on Geo-spatial data skills development was kicked-off at Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI). Solidaridad is partnering with FutureWater to conduct a tailor-made training on ‘Geo-spatial data skills development for improved soil water management and enhanced crop productivity at the national level in Zambia’. The training…
20 abril 2022
InfoSequia es ahora parte del portal TWIGA, una plataforma que integra múltiples servicios geoclimáticos en África
InfoSequia es el Sistema de Detección Temprana y Pronóstico estacional de impactos de Sequía desarrollado por FutureWater para dar soporte al proceso de toma decisiones y gestión integrada del riesgo. InfoSequia combina índices meteorológicos, satelitales, hidrológicos y climáticos, junto con técnicas de modelización y aprendizaje automático. Recientemente InfoSequia se ha integrado de manera efectiva en…
15 abril 2022
Soluciones Basadas en la Naturaleza (NbS) para la seguridad hídrica: FutureWater prepara las fichas técnicas de opciones NbS para TNC
Recently, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has published a How-to Guide to Develop Watershed Investment Programs, accessible here. This important resource was designed to meet the needs of practitioners and investors across a variety of sectors who may wish to improve biodiversity, climate and water security outcomes by employing nature-based solutions. It comprises several components, including…
4 marzo 2022
InfoSequia, finalista en la segunda edición de Dinapsis Open Challenge
Recientemente, FutureWater presentó la solución InfoSequia en el 2º Desafío Dinapsis, un programa de innovación organizado por el nodo regional de Dinapsis en la Región de Murcia. Este segundo reto lanzado por Dinapsis, que es la red de hubs para la transformación digital del grupo Agbar, se centró en la búsqueda de soluciones y aplicaciones innovadoras…
14 febrero 2022
Video: Usuarios y beneficiarios comparten sus experiencias en el uso de innovaciones geoespaciales en escuelas de campo de Egipto
The project ‘A Practical Farmers Toolkit – Geodata for climate smart agriculture in Egypt’ has successfully finished last month. An exciting video was made, which gives a short overview of this agricultural project. An interactive training programme started in April 2021 with online training, field schools, and group projects. The ‘toolkit’ provided in this project…
10 marzo 2021
Results from Pilot Project on ‘Cadastre Mapping with Flying Sensor Imagery in Mozambique’ Now Published
FutureWater conducted a very interesting and innovative pilot project for TerraFirma (Mozambique) on using flying sensor imagery for cadastre mapping. Flying sensor imagery was obtained through various flights in Quelimane, Mozambique for an area with small-scale agriculture. Field boundaries were determined with the flying sensor imagery using various classification and segmentation algorithms, namely R packages…
