70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas where agriculture is the main source of income. This dataset contains measures of agricultural inputs, outputs, and productivity for Mauritania, compiled by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization and sourced from the World Bank. It was last updated on HDX in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze agricultural productivity trends based on compiled FAO measures.
- Model the relationship between rural development and agricultural inputs.
- Assess challenges of land and water degradation for food production.
- Study the role of agriculture in livelihoods for Mauritania's rural population.
Strengths
- Data originates from the authoritative World Bank and UN FAO sources.
- License is permissive (CC-BY-4.0).
- Last update timestamp is precisely recorded (2026-04-28 09:47:43.307805).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and dataset size are 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 (FAO).
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 09:47:43.307805; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Mauritania