IRENA and FAO make Global Agro-Ecological Zoning version 4 available on IRENA platform

March 6, 2023 |

In the UAE, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) are advancing the development of sustainable bioenergy by joining forces in showcasing the mapping of geospatial layers of data on agro-ecological zoning. Within the framework of collaboration under the memorandum of understanding signed in 2021, the two organisations have made available the Global Agro-Ecological Zoning version 4 (GAEZ v4) on IRENA’s Global Atlas for Renewable Energy platform.

FAO’s GAEZ v4 is the most ambitious global assessment to date of natural resources, which serves to find suitable agricultural land utilisation options. It comprises a large volume of spatial data of natural resources indicators and results of agro-ecological crop analysis. The data is now available on IRENA’s Global Atlas for Renewable Energy, an online platform intended to help policymakers and investors to access maps locating renewable energy resources across the world.

As the largest ever initiative to help countries understand their renewable energy potential, the Global Atlas platform now hosts GAEZ v4 layers of spatial data representing a crop suitability index for 26 different types of crops. The addition of GAEZ v4 to the Global Atlas helps users make informed decisions on potential bioenergy production and determine a specific bioenergy pathway through the IRENA’s Bioenergy Simulator.

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