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Spatial and temporal contrasts in the distribution of crops and pastures across Amazonia: A new agricultural land use data set from census data since 1950

Amazonia holds the largest continuous area of tropical forests with intense land use change dynamics inducing water, carbon, and energy feedbacks with regional and global impacts. Much of our knowledge of land use change in Amazonia comes from studies of the Brazilian Amazon, which accounts for two thirds of the region. Amazonia outside of Brazil has received less attention because of the difficulty of acquiring consistent data across countries. We present here an agricultural statistics database of the entire Amazonia region, with a harmonized description of crops and pastures in geospatial format, based on administrative boundary data at the municipality level. The spatial coverage includes countries within Amazonia and spans censuses and surveys from 1950 to 2012. Harmonized crop and pasture types are explored by grouping annual and perennial cropping systems, C3 and C4 photosynthetic pathways, planted and natural pastures, and main crops. Our analysis examined the spatial pattern of ratios between classes of the groups and their correlation with the agricultural extent of crops and pastures within administrative units of the Amazon, by country, and census/survey dates. Significant correlations were found between all ratios and the fraction of agricultural lands of each administrative unit, with the exception of planted to natural pastures ratio and pasture lands extent. Brazil and Peru in most cases have significant correlations for all ratios analyzed even for specific census and survey dates. Results suggested improvements, and potential applications of the database for carbon, water, climate, and land use change studies are discussed. The database presented here provides an Amazon-wide improved data set on agricultural dynamics with expanded temporal and spatial coverage.

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Date (Publication)
2015-08-11
Credit
Imbach, P., Manrow, M., Barona, E., Barretto, A., Hyman, G. and Ciais, P., 2015. Spatial and temporal contrasts in the distribution of crops and pastures across Amazonia: A new agricultural land use data set from census data since 1950. Global biogeochemical cycles, 29(6), pp.898-916.
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Completed
Originator
  International Center for Tropical Agriculture
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Author
  Spatial Informatics Group - Glenn Hyman
Maintenance and update frequency
Daily
Theme
  • cropland
  • statistics
  • pastures
  • spatial distribution
  • Amazonia
Keywords
  • servircat
  • ciat-servir
  • landcover-ecosystems, agriculture-foodsecurity
  • geo-agriculture
  • geossDataCore
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
  • South America
  • Guyana
  • Colombia
  • Bolivia
  • Venezuela
  • Peru
  • Brazil
  • Ecuador
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CIAT makes no express or implied warranty as to the accuracy of the map or as to the merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose of the data. CIAT shall not be liable for special, consequential or incidental damages attributed to this data.
Metadata language
eng
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UTF8
Topic category
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
Begin date
0950-01-01
End date
2012-10-01
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EPSG / 4326
Number of dimensions
2
Dimension name
Column
Dimension size
360
Dimension name
Row
Dimension size
180
Cell geometry
Area
Transformation parameter availability
No
Distribution format
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Metadata language
eng
Character set
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Date stamp
2020-06-16T15:03:47
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
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  CIAT
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