Agriculture and Food Supply Data
See also the resources on my companion page for the ISA Compendium's "Review of Available Data Sets" article, which may have been updated more recently than some of the resources on this page.
My Environmental Topics and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data. See also the section on resource scarcity, below.
TerraStat (from the UN FAO; information about land use potential in each country, such as soil quality, arable land, and human-induced land degradation).
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FAO ProdStat data on agricultural production (from the UN FAO; see their separate interfaces for crops and livestock production data)
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FAOSTAT data on agricultural producer prices (from the UN FAO)
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FAO TradeStat data on agricultural trade (from the UN FAO)
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FAOSTAT data on pesticides trade (from the UN FAO)
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FAOSTAT Land Use data (from the UN FAO)
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FAOSTAT Fertilizer data (from the UN FAO)
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FAOSTAT Agricultural Machinery and Equipment data (from the UN FAO)
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Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas/GLIPHA (from the UN FAO)
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Agricultural data (this data set is linked from the bottom of Harvard's Center for International Development geography data web page)
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- Variables Included: FAO soil suitability (two types), percent of Matthews' cultivated land in each Köppen-Geiger climate zone, percent of Matthews' cultivated land -- using a revised classification scheme -- in each Köppen-Geiger climate zone, percent land area in each Köppen-Geiger climate zone weighted by Matthews' cultivated land, percent land area in each Köppen-Geiger climate zone weighted by a revised Matthews' cultivated land classification
Energy Data
My Environmental Topics and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data. See also the section on resource scarcity, below.
BP-Amoco's Statistical Review of World Energy (includes reports on oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear energy, hydroelectricity, and primary energy, including data on proven reserves, production, consumption, and trade)
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International Energy Data and Analysis (from the U.S. Energy Information Administration)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: Most countries, varying temporal coverage (some indicators reported for one recent year, e.g., 1996; others for series dating as far back as 1970)
- Variables Included: Petroleum consumption (demand), supply, reserves, trade, refinery capacity, rigs in operation
UN Joint Oil Data Initiative (JODI)
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UN Energy Statistics Database (from the UN data browser; see also the UNSD's Energy Statistics site, including the Energy Statistics Yearbook and annual Energy Balances and Electricity Profilesreport)
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- Spatial-Temporal Domain: entire world, mid-to-late 1990s (multiple annual reports for each country); statistical compendium: adds mid-to-late 1980s
- Variables Included: Country pages: production of minerals over previous five years, location and capacity of major mines
Oil and Gas Industry Projects (from Offshore-Technology.com, "The website for the offshore oil and gas industry"; a list of projects around the world where offshore drilling is occurring, including some in disputed waters)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: current
- Variables Included: (no data -- just information about current drilling)
Fisheries Data
My Maritime, Environmental Topics, and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data. See also the section on resource scarcity, below.
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Fishery Aquaculture Production data
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Fishery Capture Production data
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Fishery Commodities and Trade data
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Global Number of Fishers data (from the UN FAO; data on the number of peple engaged in fishing in each country, often broken down by gender and time spent fishing)
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Consumption of Fish and Fishery Products data
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Forestry Data
My Environmental Topics and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data. See also the section on resource scarcity, below.
UN FAO Forestry Country Profiles
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ForesSTAT (from the UN FAO)
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Forestry Trade Flows (from the UN FAO)
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Fresh Water Data
My Fresh Water, Environmental Topics, and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.
AquaStat (from the UN FAO; a series of regional and country reports, usually full of data, on the scarcity and usage of water resources)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: limited primarily to Africa, the Middle East, and the former Soviet Union; focuses on the late 1990s
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Monthly Discharge Data for World Rivers (except former Soviet Union) (an extended version of the UNESCO/WMO River Flow Data; this can be supplemented with the extended Russian River Flow Data by Bodo)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: 1800-1972 (mosts rivers cover more limited time frames)
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Global River Discharge Database (RivDis) (a research project compiling river flow data for major world rivers)
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Hydrosphere Data (from the National Center for Atmospheric Research; access to a number of water-, river-, and precipitation-related data sets)
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Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database (from Aaron Wolf at Oregon State University; this project offers a variety of useful tabular and spatial data related to fresh water and rivers:)
- International Freshwater Treaties Database
- International Water Event Database
- International River Basin Register
- U.S Interstate Freshwater Compacts Database
- Transboundary Freshwater Spatial Database
- Atlas of International Freshwater Agreements
- Basins at Risk Project
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R-HydroNET V1.0 (Web-accessible hydrological and other data on South and Central America and the Caribbean)
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Other Resources
My Environmental Topics and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.
World Resources Report (from the World Resources Institute, UN Environment Program, UN Development Program, and World Bank)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (varies)
- Variables Included: Access to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation, Agricultural Inputs, Atmospheric Concentrations of Greenhouse and Ozone-Depleting Gases, CO2 Emissions from Industrial Processes, Commercial Energy Production, Education and Child Health, Energy Consumption, Food Trade and Aid, Food and Agriculture Production, Forest Resources, Freshwater Resources and Withdrawals, Globally Threatened Species, Gross National and Domestic Product Estimates, Industrial Waste, Land Area and Use, Livestock Populations and Grain Consumed as Feed, Marine Biodiversity, Marine and Freshwater Catches, Aquaculture and Fish Consumption, Mortality and Nutrition, National and International Protection of Natural Areas, Official Development Assistance and External Debt Indicators, Other Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Reserves and Resources of Commercial Energy, Size and Growth of Population and Labor Force, Trends in Births / Life Expectancy / Fertility / Age Structure, Urban Indicators, Wastewater Treatment, Wood Production and Trade, World CO2 Emissions from Fossil Fuel Consumption and Cement Manufacture (each of these general topics features data on multiple specific indicators)
General Climate and Environmental Data
My Environmental Topics and International Organizations pages may also provide relevant information or data.
Population, Landscape, and Climate Estimates (PLACE) data (from CIESIN; estimates for each country of the population and area covered by each class of a number of demographic, physical, biological, and climatic variables such as biomes, climate zones, coastal proximity zones, elevation zones, and population density zones)
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: entire world, 1990 and 2000 snapshots
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Environmental Performance Index (from the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy (YCELP) and the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) of Columbia University, in collaboration with the World Economic Forum and the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission)
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Compendium of Environmental Sustainability Indicator Collections (from CIESIN; a compilation of over 400 variables from the Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI), Environmental Vulnerability Index (EVI), Rio to Johannesburg Dashboard of Sustainability, The Wellbeing of Nations, and the National Footprint Accounts/Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity)
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UN Greenhouse Gas Inventory Data (from the UN data browser; see also the UNFCCC's data page)
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- Atmosphere datasets
- Biosphere datasets
- Climate indicator datasets
- Cryosphere datasets
- Land surface datasets
- Spatial-Temporal Domain: (varies)
- Variables Included: (varies)
Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators Service/ENTRI (from CIESIN; includes a searchable portal to information by treaty or by country)
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- Variables Included: treaty texts and signatories
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