| Title | Potential to sequester additional carbon in soils on cropland |
| Date | 2007-06-25 |
| Date type | Publication |
| Edition | First |
| Presentation form | mapDigital |
| Abstract | The map is a global raster datalayer with a resolution of 5 arc-minutes. It provides a preliminary perspective on where cropping systems could be changed to achieve substantial soil carbon sequestration. It highlights the intersection of locations with medium-to-high soil carbon sequestration potential and croplands, as identified by the GLC2000 global land cover database. The data sources are from FAO and GLC2000 database. |
| Purpose | The State Of Food and Agriculture 2007 contains 4 global datasets, 2 South and Southeast Asia datasets, 2 Neotropics datasets. The datasets are intended to provide an indication at the regional and global level of potential for farmers to provide environmental services. |
| Status | completed |
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| Maintenance and update frequency | asNeeded |
| Descriptive keywords |
Soil carbon gap
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cropland
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croplands
(theme). |
| Descriptive keywords |
World
(place). |
| Access constraints | copyright |
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| Spatial representation type | grid |
| Language | English |
| Character set | utf8 |
| Topic category code | Geoscientific Information |
| Topic category code | environment |
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| Supplemental Information | This dataset is created for the State Of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) 2007, Paying farmers for environmental services, FAO. Croplands are defined by GLC land classes 16, 17 and 18. Each pixel contains a class value of 11 for croplands with soil carbon gap, 10 for croplands, 1 for areas with soil carbon gap and 0 for all other pixels. |
