New datasets on resilience of livestock systems to climate hazards in Cambodia

Five new datasets have been published on the Agro-informatics Platform within the Land use channel. The data provides information on Cambodia climate hazard pressure, livestock feed availability and demand, as well as livestock resilience and vegetation health indexes.

The climate hazard pressure dataset is a composite index of historical exposure to droughts and floods, based on disaster records, precipitation anomalies, and maximum temperatures. The livestock feed availability data is based on annual biomass estimates derived from Net Primary Productivity (NPP) 2016-2023, land use/land cover, and utilization rates across key forage sources (e.g., rice straw, grasslands, CPAs). The annual livestock feed demand is estimated from annual dry matter intake (DMI) (tonnes/ha/year) from cattle, swine and buffalo. The livestock resilience data is an indicator combining hazard exposure and system capacity (feed availability and demand) to assess spatial patterns of resilience across provinces. While the vegetation index is a remote sensing-based drought and forage stress proxy (values 0–1), derived from NDVI and brightness temperature, used to identify vegetation stress and drought-prone areas.

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