Land Suitability Index for Oil Palm in Tanzania – Available Area for Bioenergy Purpose
This dataset presents the result of the Bioenergy and Food Security (BEFS) analysis for Tanzania on land suitability and availability for oil palm. In particular it reports the available area suitable for oil palm production at different levels of suitability, considering specific production systems and level of inputs. Land already under agriculture production or protected or environmentally sensitive has been excluded from the land suitability total area, in order to get a true understanding of which lands are available for bioenergy production in this country. Please note that the "Excluded areas" layers, used to identify areas that in Tanzania could not be available for bioenergy activities, are also described in this catalogue. You may find the link to them in the Distribution Information section of this metadata.
The land suitability index categorizes the capability of a specific location to achieve the maximum attainable yield in percentage terms. The maximum attainable yield is defined as the harvested yield of a high-producing variety with “constraint-free†conditions (water, nutrients and pests and disease), which can be achieved under a specific production system and level of inputs.
This dataset shows the result of the assessment carried out for the oil palm under two production systems, namely Tillage-based (TA) and Conservation agriculture (CA) and under low and high inputs. The two production systems and two input levels result in four agricultural configurations:
1 - Tillage-based at low inputs (TA-L)
2 - Tillage-based at high inputs (TA-H)
3 - Conservation agriculture at low inputs (CA-L)
4 - Conservation agriculture at high inputs (CA-H)
The BEFS analysis has also investigated the following crops for potential bioenergy development: sugarcane, cassava, sweet sorghum and sunflower. All BEFS results have been reported in the FAO publication “Bioenergy and Food Security - The BEFS Analysis for Tanzania†and the final products made available in this catalogue.
Simple
- Date ( Publication )
- 2010-12-01T10:52:00
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
- Land suitability assessment for cultivation of bio-energy crops.
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- BEFS
- bioenergy
- bioenergy production
- land suitability
- land suitability index
- tillage
- conservation agriculture
- high inputs
- low inputs
- oil palm
- Tag_BEFS
- Keywords ( Place )
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- Tanzania
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Farming
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:4326 (WGS1984)
- Number of dimensions
- 3
- Dimension name
- Row
- Dimension name
- Column
- Dimension name
- Vertical
- Cell geometry
- Area
- Transformation parameter availability
- No
- OnLine resource
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Bioenergy and Food Security (BEFS) website
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Bioenergy and Food Security (BEFS) website
- OnLine resource
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Bioenergy and Food Security - The BEFS Analysis for Tanzania
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Bioenergy and Food Security - The BEFS Analysis for Tanzania
- OnLine resource
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Environmental and land use constraints for bioenergy purpose in Tanzania
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
Environmental and land use constraints for bioenergy purpose in Tanzania
- OnLine resource
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si_oipm_al_av_area.zip
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
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Land Suitability Index for Oil Palm - Tillage-based and low inputs (AL)
- OnLine resource
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si_oipm_ah_av_area.zip
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Land Suitability Index for Oil Palm - Tillage-based and high inputs (AH)
- OnLine resource
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si_oipm_bl_av_area.zip
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Land Suitability Index for Oil Palm - Conservation agriculture and low inputs (BL)
- OnLine resource
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si_oipm_bh_av_area.zip
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Land Suitability Index for Oil Palm - Conservation agriculture and high inputs (BH)
- OnLine resource
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si_oipm_al_av_area_54454
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OGC:WMS
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Land Suitability Index for Oil Palm in Tanzania - Tillage-based and low inputs
- OnLine resource
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si_oipm_ah_av_area_54454
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OGC:WMS
)
Land Suitability Index for Oil Palm - Tillage-based and high inputs
- OnLine resource
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si_oipm_bl_av_area_54454
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OGC:WMS
)
Land Suitability Index for Oil Palm - Conservation agriculture and low inputs
- OnLine resource
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si_oipm_bh_av_area_54454
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OGC:WMS
)
Land Suitability Index for Oil Palm - Conservation agriculture and high inputs
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- 7682be13-716e-4a2b-8439-a426b75678b0 XML
- Metadata language
- en
- Character set
- UTF8
- Parent identifier
- Land Suitability Index for Cassava in Tanzania - Available Area for Bioenergy Purpose 36ec1070-8458-4843-a976-83c2110c5997
- Date stamp
- 2020-04-09T12:48:14
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Overviews
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Spatial extent
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