Major agricultural systems (Global)

This map builds upon work done by Dixon (Dixon et al., 2001) in an attempt to propose a general classification of major farming systems. Based on a combination of global dataset, the map proposes a harmonized classification of major agricultural systems used as the basis for the analysis of SOLAW's Systems at risk. The map is based on an interpretation of global land cover data, combined with thematic datasets showing irrigated land and paddy rice extent.

The map is published in SOLAW Report: The state of the world's land and water resources for food and agriculture - Managing systems at risk (2011) and SOLAW Thematic Report 15: Sustainable options for addressing land and water problems - a problem tree and case studies (links in the online resources section).

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Date (Publication)
2010-11-02
Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

The map is published is used for addressing land and water problems and as input in water balance calculations (e.g. GlobWat).
Status
Completed
Author
  FAO-UN Land and Water Division - Jippe Hoogeveen ( Water resources Officer )
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla , Rome , 00153 , Italy
Originator
  FAO-UN Land and Water Division - Hubert George ( Senior Officer )
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla , Rome , 00153 , Italy
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Place

  • World
Theme

  • land use

  • land cover

  • farming systems

  • SOLAW

  • Managing Systems at Risk

  • AQUAMAPS_analyses

  • AQUAMAPS_globwat

  • Tag_AQUASTAT
Access constraints
Copyright
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Boundaries
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Supplemental Information

The spatial datasets used for the production of this map consist of:

- GLOBCOVER, global land-cover map for the year 2005

( http://www.gofc-gold.uni-jena.de/sites/globcover.php )

- Paddy rice systems (Ellis and Ramankutty, 2008)

- Median altitude and thermal climates (both datasets are part of the GAEZ v3.0 (IIASA/FAO, 2010)

- Global Map of Irrigation Areas v4.0.1 at 5 arc-min (Siebert at al., 2007)

- Global Map of Aridity at 10 arc-min (FAO)

- Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL 2008)

- FAO’s Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas (GLiPHA, available at: http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/home/en/news_archive/AGA_in_action/glipha.html )

- FAO’s Agro-MAPS, available at ( http://kids.fao.org/agromaps/ )

Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Distribution format
  • TIFF ( )

OnLine resource
SOLAW website ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
Download - Agricultural systems (ESRI GRID) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
OnLine resource
farmsys2_38023 ( OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map )

Major agricultural systems

OnLine resource
Download - Agricultural systems - (ASCII grid with Vat table and class codes) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
OnLine resource
Download - Agricultural systems (GeoTiff) ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
OnLine resource
SOLAW Report (2011) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

The state of the world's land and water resources for food and agriculture - Managing systems at risk.

OnLine resource
SOLAW Background Thematic Report - TR15 ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

Sustainable options for addressing land and water problems - a problem tree and case studies.

File identifier
c9be830e-daf5-4926-bbf6-0051ad057c53 XML
Metadata language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2022-01-28T09:10:25
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

1.0
Point of contact
  FAO-UN Land and Water Division - AQUASTAT ( )
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla , Rome , 00153 , Italy
 
 

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Keywords

AQUAMAPS_analyses AQUAMAPS_globwat Managing Systems at Risk SOLAW Tag_AQUASTAT farming systems land cover land use

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