Agriculture

Agriculture

• Agriculture Datasets (Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  #land use #land coverage #urban land #soil #irrigation #river discharge #crop calendar #historical croplands #historical data #emissions #air quality #GIS data #multiple datasets

• Food and Agriculture Datasets (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
  #agricultural production & prices #food security #food balances #fertilizer use #investment into agriculture #population #employment in agriculture #emissions #land use #forestry #multiple datasets #country level

• EarthStat (University of Minnesota and the University of British Columbia
  #croplands #crop yield #emissions #water depletion #fertilizer use #crop allocation to food #GIS data #multiple datasets
  
  

• History Database of the Global Environment (PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
  #HYDE #land use #population #historical data #12,000 years

Irrigation

• Monthly Irrigated and Rainfed Crop Areas, 2000 (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt )
  #MIRCA2000 #water use #irrigated crop areas #rainfed crop areas #GIS data #monthly data #around year 2000
  
  

• Geo-referenced Database on Dams (AQUASTAT, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
  #water use #irrigation #dam location #dam characteristics #GIS data #multiple countries

Agriculture & Development

• Agricultural Transition Dataset (Louis Putterman, Brown University)
  #year of transition from hunting/gathering to agriculture #historical data #cross-section #country level
  
  

• Agricultural Research Data (ASTI, International Food Policy Research Institute)
  #agricultural research spending #number of agricultural researchers #panel #country level