Geospatial Tools and Applications for Climate Investments

For development organizations, it is vital to know how and where climate change is affecting smallholder farming in order to pursue effective interventions. IFAD uses geospatial technology to help map, assess, and target its climate-related investments. IFAD relies on the geospatial data and expertise of other organizations to perform its analyses. The catalogue features the work of a number of these important partners, most notably fellow Rome-based agencies: the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP), and the European Space Agency (ESA). This catalogue promotes a number of geospatial tools under FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative that can support the design and implementation of large agricultural programmes such as of IFAD.