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Development programming is full of information gathering, such as farm size. In a program I once worked on, smallholder farmers had to have less than three hectares...

In many developing country environments, it is difficult or impossible to obtain recent, reliable estimates of human development. Nationally representative household...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, or drones, really excel in emergencies as they satisfy the first need in an emergency: provide quick, cheap, and highly local damage estimates....

Here is one of the basic questions for a mass Long Lasting Insecticidal Net distribution campaign, “How do you know when you are done?” Population data...

The agriculture sector is creating increasing amounts of data, from many different sources. From tractors equipped with GPS tracking, to open data released by government...

Opportunities and challenges relevant to smallholder agriculture in emerging economies are increasing thanks to the continued proliferation of smartphones, sensors,...

When disaster strikes, real time updates about evolving crisis situations and information about those affected, including their needs and locations, are paramount...

The FEWS NET early warning system educates decision-makers who are responsible for creating and funding humanitarian response plans, and in December 2015, FEWS...

Geographic information systems are changing the way we think about food security and famine early warning. At the Transforming Global Food Security event, we talked...

Last year, the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency reported that the number of refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people worldwide exceeded 50 million...