The training, aimed at technical staff participating in the project in Argentina, Chile and Colombia, was attended by 45 people.

The objective of this activity was to present and discuss a proposal to standardise the methodology for collecting and monitoring environmental data using low-cost digital tools, which will make it easier for technical teams to collect environmental data at the project's pilot sites.

Among the topics addressed were: digital mapping of farm infrastructure, biodiversity and vegetation cover, and the promotion of common and comparable criteria among the three participating countries.

The opening remarks were given by the project leader, Dr Natalia Aguilar, who presented the scope of the ongoing project and highlighted the importance of environmental indicators and the use of common digital tools to standardise data recording.

Then, Douglas A. Gómez-Latorre, a researcher at AGROSAVIA (Colombia), gave a presentation on the use of Google Earth and its geographic information system (GIS) to identify farm infrastructure using polygons and georeferenced markers. He also explained how to export files and presented some examples of use.

In turn, Paolo Sussini, a researcher at INTA (Argentina), focused on the use of applications for identifying plant species and recording georeferenced data. Specifically, he addressed the iNaturalist and Epicollect5 applications, available for Android and iOS devices, applying them to the recording and systematisation of environmental indicators linked to livestock systems.

At the end of each presentation, there was a time for questions, where participants asked about and discussed practical aspects of the tools presented. An asynchronous activity was also proposed, with the aim of reinforcing content and following up on its implementation.

This activity continued the training process for project technicians in the three countries. Additional training sessions will be held soon to continue supporting the work of the technical staff at the pilot sites.

For those who were unable to participate live, a recording of the training is available at the following link: https://youtu.be/0taMKHQxrUQ?si=7l-8TT8sz86modKU