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Agriculture • Harvest • Crop • Yield • Food • Food Production • Food Security • Farming • Productivity • Land Use
The MapSPAM (Spatial Production Allocation Model) datasets provide high-resolution spatial data on crop production systems globally. They include detailed information on physical and harvested area, yield, and production systems for 42 crops, disaggregated by input level and irrigation type.
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This dataset provides spatially detailed estimates of the land area physically occupied by 42 different crops around the world.
It represents the ground surface actually covered by a crop, regardless of how many times it is harvested in a year.
With a resolution of approximately 10 x 10 kilometers, this data enables fine-scale assessments of crop presence and spatial patterns in agricultural land use.
Spatial Resolution
10km x 10km