Geospatial Support for the UN World Food Programme

Geospatial Support for the UN World Food Programme

Author: MapScaping February 8, 2023 Duration: 41:39
So you might be wondering why the United Nations World Food Programme needs a geospatial support unit. Let me give you a brief overview,    Basically, they curate and maintain global datasets that they use to model the risk of sudden-onset disasters than might lead to a food security risk. They use this model to send out early warnings to at-risk communities and help with the response when disasters happen.    Of course, there is more to it ...   But I will let Rohini Sampoornam Swaminathan ( The head of the Geospatial Support Unit at the UN World Food Programme)  explain it in more detail.   The Hunger Map https://hungermap.wfp.org/   BeforeAfterMap OSM Before-After Maps is an online tool that allows anyone to easily compare how a particular area looked in terms of OpenStreetMap (OSM) data at two different years, side by side, and get a visual insight into mapping contributions over time. https://beforeafter.baato.io/        

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