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20/04/2021
20 April 2021, Brussels/Rome - “New solutions and modern approaches” are needed to face global challenges such as hunger, poverty, climate change, environmental degradation and the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, FAO Director-General QU Dongyu said today at the launch of the European Commission’s new Knowledge Centre for Earth Observation (KCEO).
“Actionable information gained from earth observation data is an important enabler” for the transformation envisioned by FAO’s new Strategic Framework, which focuses on fostering more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems, he said.
The KCEO aims to provide an agile internal coordination mechanism inside the European Union’s executive branch to maximize the uptake of products and information from the Copernicus Programme, the EU’s network of satellites and sensors. ....

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