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1 agosto 2022
FutureWater Provided Training Course on Flying Sensors for Agricultural Systems as Part of TWIGA’s MapYourCrop Service
Early July, Martijn de Klerk, flying sensor expert at FutureWater and Jan van Til, operational manager at HiView, gave a one-week training at Strathmore University in Nairobi, Kenya on the use of drones for agriculture. The course was part of the farm extension service ‘MapYourCrop’ developed by FutureWater, as part of the TWIGA project, with partners HiView, Hydrologic and UFZ...
12 julio 2022
Applications to FAO-FutureWater Course on Real Water Savings in India Are Open!
Applications for the eLearning course Real Water Savings in Agriculture (REWAS) can be submitted starting today. This online course is organized by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and FutureWater at no costs and will be organized in August 2022. Focus will be on India. Participants will receive a FAO / FutureWater...
4 julio 2022
Flying Sensor Demonstration and Training in Mozambique as Part of the APSAN-Vale project
On 17 June associate Jan van Til from HiView accompanied his colleagues from ThirdEye at a presentation day for potential clients. ThirdEye is a Mozambican drone service company that was established in 2015 by FutureWater and HiView. At this day, that was partly held in a venue in Chimoio and partly in a field near...
1 julio 2022
Rewarding Kickoff Meeting for the CREATE Project in Ankara
Last week, FutureWater colleagues Brecht D’Haeyer and Asher Lazarus travelled to Ankara, Turkey, for the kickoff meeting of the CREATE project (Cross Border Climate Vulnerabilities and Remote Impacts of Food Systems of the EU, Turkey and Africa Trade Climate Risk and Adaptation). There, they met with partners from the host institution, Ankara University Water Management...
28 junio 2022
Meet the Rapid Eye XS – Revolutionary Small and Low-Cost Agricultural Drone
FutureWater’s partner HiView has completed the prototype of their latest innovation, the Rapid Eye XS. This ultra light drone is designed in the first place for the use in small scale agriculture, but has many other potential applications. It can process NDVI imagery on-board, and is very easy to use. FutureWater played a prominent role...
16 junio 2022
Exciting Kickoff in Málaga for a new PRIMA-EU Innovation Action project: ‘BONEX’
We are proud to be part of the winning consortium for a PRIMA-EU Innovation Action project. With 16 partners (academia and SME’s) under the lead of Bioazul we gathered in Málaga on 18 and 19 May for a successful, in-person Kickoff meeting of BONEX (Boosting Nexus Framework Implementation in the Mediterranean). It was an energetic...
13 mayo 2022
Succesful Field Visit of FutureWater to the APSAN-Vale Project in Mozambique
In April, Vera Hollander, Water Management Expert at FutureWater, visited Mozambique for the APSAN-Vale project. This project will demonstrate what the best combinations are of adoption strategies and technological packages, with the largest overall impact in terms of Water Productivity, both at the plot-level, sub-basin as well as basin-level. The project has as its overall aim to...
5 mayo 2022
Training on Real Water Savings finished for Bangladesh, China and Indonesia
Last month, FutureWater concluded training programs on Real Water Savings for Bangladesh, China and Indonesia. This training was part of the project ‘Delivering Training on Real Water Savings (ReWaS) for the Regional Water Scarcity Program in Bangladesh, Indonesia, India, Thailand and China’ that FutureWater is rolling out in cooperation with the Regional Office for Asia...
26 abril 2022
Completado satisfactoriamente el primer módulo de capacitación en análisis geoespacial en Zambia
Last week, first module of the Nuffic TMT training course on Geo-spatial data skills development was kicked-off at Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI). Solidaridad is partnering with FutureWater to conduct a tailor-made training on ‘Geo-spatial data skills development for improved soil water management and enhanced crop productivity at the national level in Zambia’. The training...
20 abril 2022
InfoSequia es ahora parte del portal TWIGA, una plataforma que integra múltiples servicios geoclimáticos en África
InfoSequia es el Sistema de Detección Temprana y Pronóstico estacional de impactos de Sequía desarrollado por FutureWater para dar soporte al proceso de toma decisiones y gestión integrada del riesgo. InfoSequia combina índices meteorológicos, satelitales, hidrológicos y climáticos, junto con técnicas de modelización y aprendizaje automático. Recientemente InfoSequia se ha integrado de manera efectiva en...
