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UNITED NATIONS Jordan 33 Wholesale , April 20 (Xinhua) -- A new tool offered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) uses real-time satellite data to track water productivity in agriculture, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters here Thursday.


"The WaPOR open-access database has gone live online as of today, tapping satellite data to help farmers achieve more reliable agricultural yields and allowing for the optimization of irrigation systems," Dujarric said at a daily news briefing here.


"FAO's teams have designed WaPOR to cover Africa and the Near East, with a focus on key countries that are or are projected soon to face physical or infrastructural water scarcity," said the spokesman.


Worldwide water utilization -- the majority of which is used by agriculture -- has outpaced the rate of population growth for most of the last century and some regions are close to breaching viable limits Jordan Black Cat Wholesale , he added.


WaPOR was presented this week during a high-level partners meeting for FAO's Coping with water scarcity in agriculture: a global framework for action in a changing climate.


It allows for fine-grained analysis of water utilised through farming systems, generating empirical evidence about how it can be most productively used.


"Water use continues to surge at the same time that climate change -- with increasing droughts and extreme weather -- is altering and reducing water availability for agriculture," says Maria Helena Semedo, FAO's deputy director-general for climate change and natural resources. "That puts a premium on making every drop count, underscoring the importance of meeting growing food production needs from efficiency gains."


WaPOR sifts through satellite data and uses Google Earth computing power to produce maps that show how much biomass and yield is produced per cubic meter of water consumed.


The maps can be rendered at resolutions of as little as 30 to 250 meters, and updated every one to ten days.


FAO's team of information technology and land and water officers has designed WaPOR -- through a 10-million-U.S. dollar project funded by the government of the Netherlands -- to cover Africa and the Near East Jordan Trainer 3 Wholesale , with a focus on key countries that are or are projected soon to face physical or infrastructural water scarcity.


Country level data will be made available in June for Benin, Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Jordan Jordan Future Wholesale , Kenya, Lebanon, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Rwanda Jordan Legacy 312 Wholesale , South Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Uganda, West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Yemen.


Even more detailed data will come online in October Jordan Melo 1.5 Wholesale , starting with pilot areas in Lebanon, Ethiopia and Mali.


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NANJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- President Xi Jinping on Saturday vowed that China will continue to help international control of the Ebola epidemic in a meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.


China will continue to make joint efforts with the international community to prevent and control the outbreak, Xi said in a meeting before the opening ceremony of the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games scheduled in Nanjing Jordan Standard Wholesale , capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, on Saturday evening.


China has provided emergency medical material assistance to Ebola-hit countries and sent expert groups. China's medical teams in the countries are working with local staff, according to Xi.


A Chinese plane carrying supplies worth 30 million yuan (4.9 million U.S. dollars) arrived in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia on Monday. The supplies include medical protective clothes, disinfectants, thermo-detectors and medicines.


China also sent three expert teams composed of epidemiologists and specialists in disinfection and protection as well as medical supplies to Guinea Jordan Flyknit Elevation Wholesale , Liberia and Sierra Leone despite high risk of infection.


Before their arrival, eight members of a Chinese medical team sent to assist patients in Sierra Leone's hospitals were quarantined after treating Ebola patients.


Xi said he has ordered Chinese departments to pay close attention to the development of the epidemic and take necessary precautionary measures. The top priority is to have a scientific understanding of the epidemic, help African countries cope, and to strengthen monitoring and control, he said.


Xi also spoke highly of the measures taken by the UN and its professional institutions, and called for more assistance and input for medical and health services in African countries.


Ban applauded China's timely assistance and called on the international community to continue to help African countries fight the epidemic.


According to the most recent statistics of the World Health Organization (WHO) Jordan 28 Wholesale , the Ebola outbreak in West Africa continues to escalate, with 1,975 cases and 1,069 deaths reported in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria Jordan 17 Wholesale , and Sierra Leone.


The Youth Olympic Games, the brainchild of former International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge, are held for young athletes ages 15 to 18.


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