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Regional training workshop for advancing satellite crop monitoring to enhance agricultural resilience using the CropWatch cloud system in Latin America and the Caribbean

Meeting Date
2 – 5 December 2025
Location
Lima, Peru
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Crop monitoring with earth observation on a massive scale is neither easy nor inexpensive and requires access to specialized tools. However, technology holds immense potential for better food security planning and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, notably Goal 2: Zero Hunger.

UNCTAD in collaboration with AIR CAS, ANSO and CONIDA is organizing a regional workshop to bring together technicians, policymakers and other stakeholders from Latin America and the Caribbean countries to receive training to use the CropWatch system. Across the four days of training provided by AIR CAS’s experts, participants will be given access to the technology (both during and after the programme) and will be provided with training to use it, including being taught how to customize it to specific local requirements.

The CropWatch Innovative Cooperation Programme (CropWatch ICP) has the objective of giving developing countries access to the technology developed by AIR CAS, free of charge and indefinitely. The program will also provide training to national experts to use them and implement them in their home countries. The intended outcome of the training and the CropWatch programme is to enable developing countries to improve food security through advanced crop monitoring.

Co-organizer(s):
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (AIR CAS) and National Institute of Agricultural Innovation (INIA) of Peru, UNCTAD
Sponsor / funding:
The Alliance of International Science Organizations (ANSO)

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Language(s)
English