Combined suitability of currently available land for pasture and rainfed crops (low input level) (FGGD)

The FGGD combined suitability maps at low, intermediate and high levels of inputs under rainfed conditions on currently available land are global raster datalayers with a resolution of 5 arc-minutes. Pixels classified as urban, closed forest or irrigated contain negative values. Each remaining pixel contains a combined suitability class value for rainfed agriculture, based on the 2005 version of the suitability indexes for rainfed production of all crops plus pasture. The method is described in FAO and IIASA, 2007, Mapping biophysical factors that influence agricultural production and rural vulnerability, by H. von Velthuizen et al.