Tropical Deforestation Embodied in Agricultural Trade by Country and Commodity, 2005-2017

Florence Pendrill of Chalmers University of Technology provides estimates of tropical deforestation linked to the production, trade, and consumption of agricultural and forestry commodities. The dataset covers 135 tropical countries annually from 2005 to 2017, using a land-balance and physical trade model to attribute deforestation to specific commodities and trace them to final consumption.

Use Cases

• Modeling country-level deforestation footprints based on consumption patterns mentioned in the description
• Analyzing trends in deforestation embodied in agricultural exports and imports over the 2005-2017 period
• Attributing land-use change to specific commodity production, such as cropland or pasture expansion
• Assessing the impact of international trade policies on tropical deforestation

Strengths

• Covers 135 tropical countries, providing a broad geographic scope
• Includes annual data for a 13-year period from 2005 to 2017
• Based on an updated and peer-reviewed methodology from Pendrill et al. (2019a, b)

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified

Provenance

Source

Florence Pendrill, Chalmers University of Technology

Collection Method

Land-balance model to attribute deforestation to commodity production, combined with a physical trade model.

Time Range

2005-2017

Freshness

Data covers up to 2017; last update date for the dataset is unknown.

Geography

135 countries in the tropics