FAO definitions measure land for temporary crops, meadows, gardens, and fallow ground per capita. World Development Indicators compile this data for tracking global and national agricultural resource pressure. The dataset originates from the World Bank's World Development Indicators platform.
Use Cases
- Modeling food security risk by correlating arable land per person with national crop yield data.
- Tracking temporal trends in per capita arable land for sustainability reporting.
- Comparing agricultural resource pressure across different countries using the standardized FAO land definition.
Strengths
- Data adheres to standardized FAO definitions for land classification.
- Sourced from the authoritative World Bank World Development Indicators collection.
Limitations
- Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown.
- Geographic scope and update frequency are unspecified.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank World Development Indicators
- Collection Method
- Compiled using FAO definitions for land use.