CROPGRIDS Data on Harvested and Crop Areas

Two new CROPGRIDS datasets have been published on the Agro-informatics Platform. 

CROPGRIDS provides spatially explicit information on the distribution of 173 crops at a resolution of 0.05 degrees (~5.6 km at the equator), for the year 2020. It represents a major update of a similar data product referenced to the year 2000 dataset. For each crop species, it provides information on harvested area and crop physical area. Harvested area includes multiple cropping cycles—if a field is harvested twice in a year, it contributes twice to the harvested area total—whereas crop physical area counts area extent only once.

CROPGRIDS is a data fusion platform, with the current version incorporating and harmonizing information from 28 data sources, including regional and global gridded datasets, national statistics from 52 countries and agricultural statistics from FAOSTAT.

 CROPGRIDS provides updated, high-quality data to support analyses of agricultural productivity and sustainability at local to global scales.

 More details on the data and its methodology can be found here: https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/2be22d63-ede3-4f29-b344-f2b0d4bf01ab