Agriculture – Worldmapper

Croplands

Worldmapper — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:00:02 +0000

This map shows the land surface resized by its amount of cropland. Each transformed grid cell in the map is proportional to the total area used as cropland (land used for the cultivation of food).

Data sources
This map uses estimates for the year 2000 based on the Croplands, v1 dataset at 0.008333 degree resolution, published in 2010 by SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center).
References:
Ramankutty, N., A.T. Evan, C. Monfreda, and J.A. Foley. 2010. Global Agricultural Lands: Croplands, 2000. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4C8276G. Last accessed March 2020.

Pastures

Worldmapper — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:00:37 +0000

This map shows the land surface resized by its amount of pasture. Each transformed grid cell in the map is proportional to the total area used as pasture land (land used to support grazing animals).

Data sources
This map uses estimates for the year 2000 based on the Pastures, v1 dataset at 0.008333 degree resolution, published in 2010 by SEDAC (Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center).
References:
Ramankutty, N., A.T. Evan, C. Monfreda, and J.A. Foley. 2010. Global Agricultural Lands: Pastures, 2000. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H47H1GGR. Last accessed March 2020.

Silk Production

tina-gotthardt — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:22:05 +0000

According to the FAO: The art of silk production is called sericulture that comprises cultivation of mulberry, silkworm rearing and post cocoon activities leading to production of silk yarn. Sericulture provides gainful employment, economic development and improvement in the quality of life to the people in rural area and therefore it plays an important role in anti poverty programme and prevents migration of rural people to urban area in search of employment. Silk is only produced in around 25 countries. The main producer of silk is Viet Nam (just above 126 thousand tons in 2017), closely followed by China (126 thousand tons), India (>23 thousand tons), Uzbekistan (just above 6.7 thousand tons) and Turkey (4.5 thousand tons).

Honey Production

tina-gotthardt — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 11:10:51 +0000

According to the FAO: Honey is a nutritious, healthy and natural food produced by the bees. Its benefits go beyond its use as a sweetener as it contains several minerals, enzymes, vitamins and proteins that confer unique nutritious and organoleptic properties. Honey can be monofloral if one specific plant nectar and pollen content prevails in pre-defined percentages or polyfloral if it contains an unspecified mix of different nectars and pollens. Due to environmental, geographical and climatic conditions honey may vary in pollen content and relative humidity. Honey is produced in all five continents and its consumption varies from country to country also due to cultural reasons and eating habits. The main producer of honey is China (more than 0.5 million tons in 2017), followed by Turkey (>100 thousand tons), Argentina (>70 thousand tons), Iran and USA (both > 60 thousand tons).

Organic Agriculture 2015

Worldmapper — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:00:08 +0000

"The world map of organic agriculture hectares accounts for 43,095,884 hectares of organic agriculture land reported for 170 countries and territories. The map is dominated by the presence of Australia which appears especially bloated, and this reflects its world leadership position in terms of its number of organic agriculture hectares (17,151,000 ha, which is 39.8% of the world total). Europe accounts for 11,460,773 ha, which is 26.6% of the world total. Europe collectively has a strong presence with substantial contributions from many states, with organic agriculture leaders including: Spain (1,610,129 ha), Italy (1,317,177 ha), France (1,060,756 ha), Germany (1,060,669 ha), Poland (661,956 ha), UK (567,751 ha), Austria (526,689 ha), Sweden (500,996 ha), the Czech Republic (474,231 ha), and Turkey (461,396 ha) (Willer & Lernoud, 2015). South America has a strong presence accounted for in large measure by three countries, Argentina (3,191,255 ha), Uruguay (930,965 ha), and Brazil (705,233 ha). China and India dominate the Asian representation (2,094,000 ha and 510,000 ha respectively). Collectively Asia accounts for 8.0% of world organic agriculture hectares. North America accounts for 7.1% of world organic hectares with USA reporting 2,178,471 ha and Canada 869,239 ha. Africa has an eviscerated presence (accounting for just 2.8% of the world organic agriculture hectares), with Uganda the organics leader of the continent with 231,157 ha. Russia appears anorexic, and the Middle East is emaciated, in each case reflecting the poor diffusion of organic agriculture into these regions - and perhaps the great opportunities for future organic penetration into these territories. The map presence of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) reflects their recent commitment to the adoption of organics and the newfound status of the Falkland Islands as a current world leader with 36.3% of its agricultural land classified as organic." (modified from Paull & Hennig, 2016)

Organic Production 2015

Worldmapper — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 11:00:03 +0000

This map shows countries proportional according to the total certified organic production (including organic agriculture, wildculture, forestry and aquaculture) hectares there in 2015.

Data sources
This map uses data published by the Paull & Hennig (2016) in the Atlas of Organics: Four maps of the world of organic agriculture based on and modified from the works by Willer & Lernoud (2015) (last accessed June 2019).

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

Organic Wildculture 2015

Worldmapper — Fri, 17 May 2019 11:00:56 +0000

There is currently a twenty-first century “backflow” of the “organic” concept, from its agricultural heritage to wildculture including all aspects and styles of hunting and gathering food harvesting. (Paull, 2008) "The world map of organic wildculture hectares accounts for 34,092,862 ha reported from 73 countries. The wildculture harvest includes wild berries, wild mushrooms, wild medicinal plants, wild fruits, wild nuts, wild vegetables, palm sugar, honey and seaweed. Finland (9,000,000 organic wildculture ha), accounts for 26.4% of the global total wildculture hectares. Africa is well represented in the organic wildculture map (Fig.3) and is led by Zambia (6,133,424), Namibia (2,400,000 ha), and Morocco (817,690 ha). India dominates the Asian continent accounting for 5,180,000 organic wildculture hectares. In South America Brazil leads with 1,209,773 ha of organic wildculture. North America and Oceania are skeletally represented and offer great potential for the future uptake and reportage of organic wildculture." (modified quote from Paull & Hennig, 2016)

Organic Producers 2015

Worldmapper — Fri, 17 May 2019 11:00:41 +0000

"The world map of organic producers accounts for 1,198,583 producers reported by 148 countries. The organic producers map is dominated by the presence of India (650,000 producers). Mexico dominates the Americas with 169,703 producers. Europe is strongly represented by Italy (45,969 producers). Africa is strongly represented by Uganda (189,610 producers), Tanzania (148,610 producers), and Ethiopia (134,626 producers). North America and Australia are skeletally represented. Data on producers from China were absent in the reported data set." (modified quote from Paull & Hennig, 2016)