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Map of Africa showing food insecurity hotspots

New Global Food Insecurity Dataset at NASA's SEDAC

The dataset provides a picture of food insecurity over a 10-year period, in five global regions.

News

July 12, 2021

image of crop fields

Citizen Science Data Quality and Food Security Nexus are Topics of Recent Publications

New papers focus on citizen science, food security, and global change research.

News

March 30, 2021

Three new FLDAS data sets are now available at the GES DISC.

New Land Surface Global Data Products at GES DISC

Three new global data sets released by NASA’s Land Information System (LIS) will aid in land surface analysis and support famine and drought assessment.

News

Nov. 4, 2020

A protected spring provides a clean water supply to residents in Sauri, Kenya. (Image courtesy of Glenn Denning)

War on Hunger

Scientists use geospatial analysis to identify pockets of hunger and the geographic and physical causes of hunger.

Feature Article

July 28, 2020

The Yangtze Delta is home to more than eighty million people in an area only a little larger than the state of Indiana.

Repatterning the World

As wildlands shrink, scientists study the ecologies that people have tamed.

Feature Article

July 28, 2020

This maize in Zimbabwe appears to be thriving in its early stages, but its grain yield will depend on proper timing of rains.

Distant Fields of Grain

Remote estimates of crop yields help international aid agencies decide how to act.

Feature Article

July 21, 2020

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