Global Map of Irrigation Areas

Guinea Bissau

The area equipped for irrigation is 22 558 ha [GW01]. The figures refer to year 1996. No sub-national statistics on the extent of irrigated lands were available. Of the area equipped for irrigation, 202.5 ha was assigned to three known projects (Carantabà, Contubuol and Bafatà) as mentioned in the AQUASTAT country profile [GW01]. The remaining fraction of full/partial control area (8359.5 ha) was assigned to areas along the Geba river [GW01] as digitized from satellite imagery [GW02]. The 13 996 ha of irrigated area reported to be in mangroves [GW01] was assigned to land locked areas classified as "Mangrove" or "Irrigated cropland" in the GLC2000 land cover dataset for Africa [GW03].

References

[GW01]: FAO. 2005. AQUASTAT country profile Guinea Bissau, FAO, Rome, http://www.fao.org/ ag/agl/aglw/AQUASTAT/countries/index.stm, 28/02/2006.
[GW02]: Earth Satellite Corporation. 2004. Landsat GeoCover (2000/ETM+) Edition Mosaics, tile 071-166. Sioux Falls, USA, USGS (available at http://glcfapp.umiacs.umd.edu:8080/esdi/index.jsp).
[GW03]: Mayaux, P., Bartholomé, E., Cabral, A., Cherlet, M., Defourny, P., Di Gregorio, A., Diallo, O., Massart, M., Nonguierma, A., Pekel, J.-F., Pretorius, C., Vancutsem, C., and Vasconcelos, M. 2003. The Land Cover Map for Africa in the Year 2000. European Commision Joint Research Centre, available at: http://www-gem.jrc.it/glc2000).