The FAO Downloader Plugin

The FAO Downloader plugin for QGIS allows users to access FAO data. By taking advantage of the FAO API system users can access 26 different datasets. Users can take select a polygon layer from their QGIS projects and download the necessary data through an easy-to-use graphical user interface. Users can que up downloads of thousands of rasters at once by defining which rasters they require and the time period in which they are interested in. The program will automatically download, crop, and apply correction factors to the rasters.

This plugin was made by Brenden Vissers with assistance from Celray James Chawanda. Some Python code was adapted from the work done by Bich Tran on the "Water Productivity and Water Accounting using WaPOR” project (https://github.com/wateraccounting/WAPOROCW).

This tutorial will get you easily started with the plugin.