- Other Links
- - European Community
- - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, FAO
- Africa Real Time Environmental Monitoring System (ARTEMIS)
- AfriCover
- AQUASTAT
- Domestic Animal Diversity Information System (DAD-IS)
- ECOCROP
- Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases (EMPRES)
- FAOSTAT
- Fertilizer Database
- Field Programme Management Information System (FPMIS)
- FISHSTAT+
- GeoNetwork
- Global Agro-Ecological Zoning (AEZ)
- Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS)
The System’s goal is to provide policy-makers and policy-analysts with available information on all aspects of food supply and demand. It provides regular bulletins on food crop
production and markets at the global level and situation reports on a regional and country-by-country basis. The information provided by GIEWS include: (a) indicators on food
supply and demand, (b) global production, stocks, trade and food aid, (c) export prices and developments on main grain exchanges, (d) Special Alerts/Reports. It makes use of
FAO’s Africa Real Time Environmental Monitoring Information System (ARTEMIS), and also agro-meteorological assessments conducted by the Agro-meteorology Group. The
Emergency Centre for Locust Operations (ECLO) and the Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases (EMPRES) provide GIEWS
with information on migratory pest movements and control operations. Data from four satellite systems are used for monitoring the various crop seasons through out the world.
Data received directly at FAO ARTEMIS from the European METEOSAT satellite are used to produce cold cloud duration (CCD) images for Africa every 10 days. These provide
a estimate for rainfall, as cold clouds are often responsible for rain, and high cold cloud duration over an area is indicative of significant rainfall. GIEWS makes also extensive use
of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) images that provide an indication of the vigour and extent of vegetation cover as indicators for monitoring crop conditions
throughout the season. For crop monitoring at sub-national levels, GIEWS uses 10-day real-time vegetation images from the VEGETATION instrument on-board the SPOT-4 satellite.
Crop data includes: (a) main crops and food supply, (b) planting and harvesting calendars, (c) production, stocks and trade of cereals and other basic food commodities, (d) statistical
information on developments in the world cereal markets, export prices and ocean freight rates. GIEWS is developing an integrated information system known as the “GIEWS
Workstation”. The Workstation consists of customized tools that include country cereal balance sheets, software for the display and analysis of maps and satellite images, and
an electronic news service. The Workstation is linked to a unique reference database with pertinent information on food security at global, regional, national and sub-national levels.
http://www.fao.org/giews/english/index.htm
- Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas (GLiPHA)
- GLOBEFISH
- Irrigation Equipment System (IES)
- TERRASTAT
- World Information and Early Warning System (WIEWS)
- World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT)
- - International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA
- - United Nations Population Division
- - World Health Organization (WHO)
- - Other sites
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