Agriculture and Food Security

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Croplands, v1 (2000)

Global Agricultural Lands

To provide data on the extent of croplands for research on human-environment interactions.

Food Insecurity Hotspots Data Set, v1 (2009 – 2019)

Food Security

To provide gridded data that identify the level of intensity and frequency of food insecurity over the 10 years between 2009 and 2019, as well as hotspot areas that have experienced consecutive food insecurity events, based on FEWS NET Food Security Data.

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India Winter Cropped Area, 2016

Map: India Winter Cropped Area, 2016
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India Winter Cropped Area, 2001

Map: India Winter Cropped Area, 2001
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Phosphorus in Manure Production: South America

Map: Phosphorus in Manure Production: South America
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Phosphorus in Manure Production: Oceania

Map: Phosphorus in Manure Production: Oceania
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Featured Data Uses (2 of 3) View All

Visualizing the Global Extent of Cropland and Pastures

Food: An Atlas

The SEDAC Global Agricultural Cropland and Pasture data sets are presented in Food: An Atlas, which uses maps to explore global food distribution and production.  The cropland and pasture data, originally developed by Ramankutty et al (2008), are transformed into cartograms, in which the land area of countries is replaced by extent of crops and pastures, by Benjamin Hennig to better visualize the magnitude of agricultural areas around the world.

Mapping Sub-Saharan Agroecological and Socioeconomic Trends

HarvestChoice Mappr

SEDAC's Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP) v1 population and urban extent data are used in the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) interactive mapping application for Sub-Saharan Africa.  The application, known as Mappr, is built on IFPRI’s HarvestChoice geospatial database of biophysical and socioeconomic indicators covering four broad research domains: agriculture, agroecology, demographics and markets.  Mappr serves as the core to a decision-support system enabling people to visualize relationships between major agroecological challenges, like soil and land degradation, and socioeconomic trends such as poverty, health and nutrition.