Geospatial Capacity Building for Flood Resilience in the Sahel: the SLAPIS project case study

FOCA (Italian FlOod and Catchment Atlas) is the first systematic collection of data on Italian river catchments. It comprises geomorphological, soil, land cover, NDVI, climatological and extreme rainfall catchment attributes. FOCA also contains 631 peak and daily discharge time series covering the 1911–2016 period. Using this first nationwide data collection, a wide range of applications, in particular flood studies, can be undertaken within the Italian territory.

Agrometeorological services often do not cover the last mile – not reaching, not being understood, nor being trusted by smallholder farmers living in remote areas. To help bridge this gap across the last mile, the workshop on effective communication of agrometeorological services took place during the EMS2022. This paper presents the outcomes and recommendations on how to bridge the gap between information providers and information users.