Geospatial Support for the UN World Food Programme (opens in new tab)
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 hea...
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