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The development of services in outer space that would enable governments and companies to better manage natural resources to enhance food supplies worldwide is to be a key topic of a workshop staged by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs this autumn.
Experts attending the meeting in Houston, Texas, on 10-12 October, will be tasked with drawing up practical plans to improve the effectiveness of satellites in promoting development on Earth.
Key existing services include weather forecasting and monitoring, the management of natural disasters such as fire and storms that can destroy crops and specialist environmental monitoring, helping programmes such as the fighting of desertification.
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