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Agriculture and soil data by country

Theme
Agriculture & soils
Countries
59
National sources
97
Global datasets
9
Last verified

National agricultural and soil surveys, plus SoilGrids, the Harmonized World Soil Database, FAOSTAT, GAEZ and MapSPAM crop maps. This page lists all 97 national agriculture sources in the catalogue, country by country, after the 9 global datasets.

Global agriculture & soils datasets

  • FAO Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform (opens in a new tab)

    Portal Cost: Free

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN · Global

    Over 1 million FAO geospatial layers (soils, crops, water productivity WaPOR, land cover, livestock) with map viewer and catalogue.

    • Agriculture & soils
    • Land cover
    • Open data portal
    Licence
    Per dataset (mostly CC BY 4.0)
    Formats
    GeoTIFF, Shapefile, WMS, API
    Link
    data.apps.fao.org

    Verified

  • FAOSTAT (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN · Global

    Country-level statistics on crops, livestock, land use, emissions and trade for 245 countries since 1961.

    • Agriculture & soils
    • Census & statistics
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    CSV, API
    Link
    fao.org

    Verified

  • GAEZ v4 (Global Agro-Ecological Zones) (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    FAO / IIASA · Global

    Crop suitability, attainable yields and yield gaps for 50+ crops at 5 arc-minutes (about 9 km) under current and future climates.

    • Agriculture & soils
    • Climate & weather
    Licence
    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
    Formats
    GeoTIFF
    Link
    gaez.fao.org

    Verified

  • Harmonized World Soil Database v2.0 (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    FAO / IIASA · Global

    Harmonised global soil map at 30 arc-seconds (about 1 km) with soil properties for seven depth layers (2023).

    • Agriculture & soils
    • Geology
    Licence
    CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO
    Formats
    GeoTIFF, MDB
    Link
    fao.org

    Verified

  • MapSPAM crop production maps (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    IFPRI · Global

    Harvested area, production and yield for 42–46 crops at 5 arc-minutes (about 10 km) for 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2020.

    • Agriculture & soils
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF, CSV
    Link
    mapspam.info

    Verified

  • SoilGrids (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    ISRIC – World Soil Information · Global

    Global soil properties (organic carbon, pH, texture, bulk density) at 250 m for six depth intervals, with uncertainty.

    • Agriculture & soils
    • Geology
    Licence
    CC BY 4.0
    Formats
    COG, WCS, WMS, API
    Link
    soilgrids.org

    Verified

  • CHIRPS rainfall (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    Climate Hazards Center, UC Santa Barbara · Quasi-global (50°S–50°N)

    Daily to monthly rainfall at 0.05° (about 5 km) for 50°S–50°N since 1981, blending satellite and station data; widely used for drought.

    • Climate & weather
    • Agriculture & soils
    Licence
    CC0 1.0
    Formats
    GeoTIFF, NetCDF, BIL
    Link
    chc.ucsb.edu

    Verified

  • Digital Earth Africa (opens in a new tab)

    API Cost: Free

    Digital Earth Africa · Africa

    Analysis-ready Landsat and Sentinel data for Africa plus derived products (water observations, cropland extent, coastlines) on AWS.

    • Imagery
    • Land cover
    • Hydrology
    • Agriculture & soils
    Licence
    Free and open (most products CC BY 4.0)
    Formats
    COG, STAC, WMS
    Link
    digitalearthafrica.org

    Verified

  • LUCAS Land Use and Coverage Area frame Survey (opens in a new tab)

    Download Cost: Free

    European Commission (Eurostat) · Europe

    Field survey of land cover and land use at hundreds of thousands of geolocated points across the EU every three years since 2006, with landscape photos and topsoil samples; widely used as reference data to train and validate land cover maps.

    • Land cover
    • Agriculture & soils
    • Environment
    Licence
    Eurostat reuse policy (free, attribution)
    Formats
    CSV
    Link
    ec.europa.eu

    Verified

Agriculture & soils sources by country

Africa 50 countries

Algeria 1
Angola 2
Benin 2
Botswana 1
Burkina Faso 2
Burundi 2
Cameroon 2
Central African Republic 2
Chad 2
Côte d'Ivoire 2
Democratic Republic of the Congo 2
Djibouti 2
Egypt 1
Equatorial Guinea 1
Eritrea 1
Eswatini 1
Ethiopia 2
Gabon 1
Ghana 1
Guinea 2
Guinea-Bissau 1
Kenya 4
Lesotho 2
Liberia 2
Libya 1
Madagascar 2
Malawi 2
Mali 2
Mauritania 2
Morocco 1
Mozambique 2
Namibia 1
Niger 2
Nigeria 2
Republic of the Congo 1
Rwanda 2
Senegal 2
Sierra Leone 2
Somalia 2
South Africa 1
South Sudan 2
Sudan 2
Tanzania 2
The Gambia 1
Togo 2
Tunisia 1
Uganda 2
Western Sahara 1
Zambia 2
Zimbabwe 2

Europe 3 countries

France 1
Norway 1
United Kingdom 2

North America 2 countries

Canada 1
United States 2

South America 2 countries

Argentina 1
Chile 1

Oceania 2 countries

Australia 2
New Zealand 1

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