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NASA Harvest Mission

NASA Harvest is NASA’s Global Food Security and Agriculture Consortium
Our mission is to enable and advance adoption of satellite Earth observations by public and private organizations to benefit food security, agriculture, and human and environmental resiliency in the US and worldwide.
We accomplish this through a multidisciplinary and multisectoral Consortium of leading scientists and agricultural stakeholders, led by researchers at the University of Maryland and implemented together with our partners across the globe.

Latest News

NASA Harvest Latin America: Building Resilient Agricultural Systems for regional and global food security

NASA Harvest Latin America is a regional initiative dedicated to advancing agricultural monitoring, food security, and sustainable practices across the Latin American region… Read more

drought soil

Using El Niño forecasts to give early warning of crop failures

Sep 9, 2024

This article originally appeared on the Carbon Brief website. It is a guest post from NASA Harvest's Weston Anderson. You can find the original… Read more

field of sunflowers

First-of-its-kind High Resolution Map of Ukrainian Sunflower Cropland Allows for New Estimates of Production

Sep 2, 2024

NASA Harvest has been monitoring agricultural production in Ukraine since our organization’s inception. Agriculture makes up 10% of the country’s GDP, more than 20% of its… Read more