Agricultural Land of Africa (version 2)
This maps identifies agricultural land in Africa. Agricultural land includes arable land, permanent crops and permanent pastures. Primary input data source to develop the map was the Copernicus Global Land Service; Land Cover 100m; collection 3; epoch 2019; Globe (https://zenodo.org/record/3939050). In addition, the Agro-ecological zones of Africa (AEZ; version 2009 developed by IFPRI, https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/HJYYTI) dataset was used. The map was generated by applying agricultural land classification rules to a set of Copernicus Global Land Cover layers (main discrete classification, cover fractions for cropland/forest/herbaceous vegetation/shrubland) and the AEZ layer. The map has a spatial resolution of 100 m.
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Contacts
Samuel A. Mesele
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
Role: pointOfContact
Position: Technical Project Coordinator)
Email (work): s.mesele@cgiar.org
city: Ibadan
country: Nigeria
Url: https://www.iita.org
E. Jeroen Huising (IITA), Julius Buyengo (RCMRD), Eunice Wangui Mwangi (RCMRD), Bas Kempen (ISRIC)
Role: author
Temporal
Created: 2021-11-09
Updated: 2024-01-22
Temporal extent: 2024-01-22
Formats
- image/tiff
- OGC:WMS
- OGC:WCS
- canonical
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