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Food Security and Crop Mapping: Building a Better Picture of Global Cropland

17/11/2025
The ESA WorldCereal project plays an important role in food security. Its global crop maps and processing tools provide cricital insights for agriculture policy decision-making. Discover how in this interactive, animated web story.

Geo-Embeddings Workflow: New WorldCereal Functionality

19/09/2025
WorldCereal now provides an open-source workflow to generate and access underlying geospatial embeddings directly, so you can explore them yourself and build on top of them for custom applications.

WorldCereal System Now Live: Help Us Shape the Future of Global Crop Mapping

16/06/2025
The WorldCereal project has officially entered its second phase and is now looking for user feedback from the agriculture community on its crop mapping systems.

Rewatch webinar: Leverage Your Own Reference Data for Tailored Crop Mapping

27/03/2025

Join the webinar on March 19: Leverage your own reference data for tailored crop mapping

20/02/2025

FAO study highlights the value of WorldCereal for global crop monitoring

19/02/2025
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has published an independent analysis.

The 1st WorldCereal MOOC on Reference Data for Crop Type Mapping is now live

04/02/2025
We are thrilled to announce the launch of the 1st WorldCereal Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Reference Data for Crop Type Mapping!

In-situ data for global crop mapping

09/01/2025
WorldCereal counts on the global agricultural monitoring community for collecting high-quality in-situ data to train and validate global crop classification algorithms.

Launch of the WorldCereal crop mapping system

21/10/2024
The WorldCereal team launched the new processing system for cropland and crop type mapping.

Join the launch of the WorldCereal processing system

11/09/2024
The WorldCereal team will launch its new processing system for cropland and crop type mapping during a webinar 17 October 2024.

How to access in-situ reference data via the WorldCereal RDM

07/08/2024
View our latest demo video to learn how to use the WorldCereal Reference Data Module to discover, query and retrieve harmonized in-situ reference data on land cover and crop type.

Towards global and generic crop calendars for temporary crops

27/06/2024
As the focus of the WorldCereal project is moving from the demonstration of global crop type mapping for maize and wheat towards an operational and generic crop type mapping system, the WorldCereal crop calendars are undergoing major changes.