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Finding Agricultural Data

This guide defines agriculture as mapping the cultivation and harvesting of resources, either man-made or from natural habitats.

Please apply the search strategies outlined in Introduction to Finding GIS Data with the keywords below to help orchestrate a search to find datasets related to agriculture.

Keywords: agriculture, horticulture, botany, harvest, farming

Agricultural GIS Datasets

Includes data on the agricultural food chain and agricultural policy impact pulled from several European databases. The Agricore project is an open-source tool funded via a European Union Grant. 

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) hosts agricultural data from low and middle-income countries. 

Information is uploaded daily from the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) on humanitarian efforts. The multidisciplinary database uses the following agricultural sectors: alternative development, co-operatives, development, education/training, extension, financial services, inputs, land resources, research, services, policy, and administrative management. 

The geographic data looks at the impacts of the human agricultural industry on the environment and our attempts to feed the global population. Based on a partnership between the Global Landscapes Initiative at the University of Minnesota's Institute on the Environment and the Land Use and Global Environment Lab at the University of British Colombia.

European Union's database focused on agricultural data including farm structure, economics, prices and price indices, projections, organic farming, orchard and vineyard structure, and environment. 

Food and Agriculture Organization's Statistic Database, a United Nations Database, has food and agricultural data for over 245 countries and territories from 1961 to the present. 

United States Department of Agriculture has created a long list of data/database resources in various agricultural areas.