Data from the World Bank's portal, compiled by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, includes measures of agricultural inputs, outputs, and productivity. The dataset focuses on Botswana, where agriculture is the main source of income for 70 percent of the world's poor who live in rural areas. It was last updated on 2026-04-27.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in agricultural productivity based on compiled FAO measures.
- Model the relationship between agricultural inputs and outputs for rural development planning.
- Assess challenges related to land and water depletion for food production sustainability.
Strengths
- Data is compiled by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, a recognized authority.
- The description provides a clear thematic focus on agriculture and rural development challenges.
- Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Group
- Collection Method
- Compiled by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization from its data sources.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-27 22:17:29.685090; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Botswana