Agro-ecological Zones of Africa
Agroecological zones (AEZs) are geographical areas exhibiting similar climatic conditions that determine their ability to support rainfed agriculture. At a regional scale, AEZs are influenced by latitude, elevation, and temperature, as well as seasonality, and rainfall amounts and distribution during the growing season. The resulting AEZ classifications for Africa have three dimensions major climate zone (tropics or subtropics), moisture zones (water availability) and highland/lowland (warm or cool based on elevation). This layer is a GeoTiff version of the AEZ map developed by IFPRI that is distributed via the Harvard Dataverse (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HJYYTI)
Suitability Agroecological zones Ecosystem agriculture Agro-Ecological Zones climate temperature rainfall altitude agroecology
Contacts
Sebastian, Kate.
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Role: author
IFPRI-DATA (International Food Policy Research Institute)
Role: contactPoint
Temporal
Created: 2009-01-01
Updated: 2024-01-22
Temporal extent: 2024-01-22
Formats
- image/tiff
- OGC:WMS
- OGC:WCS
- tif
- canonical
External identification
License: CC BY-NC 3.0Updated: 2024-01-22 Edit me on GIT