Data Sources

Home Page of the UN Food and Agriculture Administration (FAO)

FAO’s FAOSTAT Database

CGIAR’s Cereal Knowledge Bank

FAO Fisheries Data

FAO Country Pasture Profiles

FAO Animal Feeds Database (AFRIS)

FAO Domestic Animal Diversity Information System (DAD-IS) (with information about livestock breeds by country)

FAO’s Gridded Livestock of the World

International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC)

FAO/IIASA Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ)

UNEP’s World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)

USGS/UNL/JRC Global Land Cover Characterization (Note: This is a GIS dataset, and requires GIS software, such as ArcView, to use it)