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In this session, Karl Morteo of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, introduces the hand-in-hand initiative approach to targeting agricultural investments, its methodology and the geospatial platform. The FAO's Hand-in-Hand initiative's objective is to identify and actualize the biggest opportunities to raise the incomes and reduce the inequities and vulnerabilities of rural populations, who constitute the vast majority of the world's poor. The presentation covers agricultural typologies and suitability assessments with examples and provides a demonstration of the platform.

The GeoField 2023 Convening, held at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Rome, Italy, brought together 100 experts in impact evaluation, Earth Observation (the use of technologies and techniques to monitor planet Earth remotely, often from space), and development program implementation.