Global most suitable cereal (physical suitability) excluding forests
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) with the collaboration of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), has developed a system that enables rational land-use planning on the basis of an inventory of land resources and evaluation of biophysical limitations and potentials. This is referred to as the Agro-ecological Zones (AEZ) methodology.
Simple
- Date ( Creation )
- 2000-05-01
- Edition
- First edition.
- Presentation form
- Digital document
- Purpose
- The AEZ methodology for land productivity assessments follows an environmental approach; it provides a framework for establishing a spatial inventory and database of land resources and crop production potentials. This land resources inventory is used to assess, for specified management conditions and levels of inputs, the suitability of crops/LUTs in relation to both rain-fed and irrigated conditions, and to quantify expected production of cropping activities relevant in the specific agro-ecological context.
- Status
- On going
Originator
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
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http://www.iiasa.ac.at
- Keywords
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- cereals
- Tag_LUS
- Tag_land
- Keywords
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- agriculture
- Keywords
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- agroecological zones
- Keywords ( Place )
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- World
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Farming
- Begin date
- 2000-05-01
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- Supplemental Information
- Svalbard and Mauritius islands missing.
- OnLine resource
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Global Agro-Ecological Zones (Global AEZ) CD-ROM FAO/IIASA, 2000
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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Global Agro-Ecological Zones (Global AEZ) CD-ROM FAO/IIASA, 2000
- Protocol
- WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
- Function
- Information
- OnLine resource
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118.zip
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
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Global most suitable cereal (physical suitability) excluding forests - image
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Description
- Last Updated
- Date / Time
- 2002-05-31 19:58:00
gmd:MD_Metadata
- File identifier
- c1e0a780-88fd-11da-a88f-000d939bc5d8 XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2019-11-22T10:29:23
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Point of contact
FAO-UN - Geospatial Coordination Unit - Climate, Biodiversity, Land and Water Department (CB)
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Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
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Rome
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00153
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Italy
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