The tool has been created for data-driven evidence-based decision-making in the food and agriculture sectors.
Hand-in-Hand geospatial platform, a tool to create more resilient food systems post COVID-19 with a large and rich set of data on food, agriculture, socioeconomics and natural resources has been launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
The tool has been created for data-driven evidence-based decision-making in the food and agriculture sectors. It supposedly contains 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 obtained 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.
FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said the platform will help to create interactive data maps, analyze trends and identify real-time gaps and opportunities along with helping to find new ways of reducing hunger and poverty through more accessible and integrated data-driven solutions.
