70 percent of the world's poor live in rural areas where agriculture is the main source of income. Data from the World Bank's portal includes measures of agricultural inputs, outputs, and productivity compiled by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. The dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0 and was last updated on 2026-04-28.
Use Cases
- Analyzing agricultural productivity trends based on FAO-compiled measures mentioned in the description
- Assessing challenges of land and water depletion for food production based on the described rural context
- Modeling the relationship between agricultural outputs and rural livelihoods based on the described income and employment role
Strengths
- Data originates from the authoritative World Bank Group and UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
- The dataset is licensed under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Provenance
- Source
- World Bank Group, with data compiled by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.
- Collection Method
- Likely aggregated from national and international statistical sources.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-28 10:06:33.548906; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Norway