On Wednesday (31 May) the Government of the landlocked kingdom of around 2 million people in southern Africa launched a GIS (geospatial information systems) platform, facilitated by the World Food Programme (WFP) that could be a game-changer for the country on a number of fronts, not least in training and providing resources for up to 3,000 farmers to anticipate, and prepare for, extreme weather events. “We hope through these tools to be able to foresee all of that, and try to solve the problem from what we see on the maps … We now have a different topography so we hope the maps will result in better planning, better cropping, better production.”