The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Google launched a mobile application that allows indigenous people and farmers to collect information on their area of forest or agricultural plots.
It was unveiled during the International Day of Forests last March 21. Ground is within FAO’s Open Foris initiative, which it also developed in collaboration with Google. “Open Foris Ground enables smallholder farmers and local communities to report data that’s important to their livelihoods, from the ground to the cloud. This is the most recent development in our near-decade long partnership with FAO, where among other efforts, we helped countries realize forest-based climate action.”
“The new MOU will deepen the engagement from the MOU signed in 2015, which has catalyzed numerous geospatial solutions enabling FAO Members to dramatically upscale environmental literacy and implement science-based policies in practically real time, not to mention combat locusts.”