As the world’s population grows it is increasingly important to ensure a safe and nutritious food supply for everyone. This can be challenging in the face of a changing climate, requiring producers to adapt to new seasonal weather patterns and to changing distributions of pests and crop diseases.
Earth Observation data play a key role in monitoring global food systems. Satellites are used to assess current crop growth and give early warning of issues (such as drought or disease) that may impact food security. There are a range of services which monitor global food supplies (e.g. JRC MARS, GEOGLAM, NASA Harvest), which then inform action by national agencies or by global actors such as WFP and FAO.
