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FAO and IIASA launch online Global Agro-ecological Zones Interactive Data Portal 25 May 2012, Rome - A new online data portal developed by the Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) aims to help unlock the planet's potential to feed a rapidly growing population.
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Land and water resources,
including multiple spatial layers of climate, soil, terrain, land cover, irrigation potentials, protected areas, population density, livestock density and accessibility, etc.
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Agro-climatic resources, providing major climatic indicators important for assessing
crop growth, development and yield formation. GAEZ's spatial agro-climatic inventories of the prevailing thermal and moisture regimes and growing periods are used for estimating crop suitability and potential yields.
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Agricultural suitability and potential yields, including information on yield
constraints, crop calendars, and production potential estimates for 11 major crop groups, 49 major crops and 92 crop types. Productivity estimates are made for rain-fed farming, rain-fed farming with water conservation and gravity, sprinkler and drip irrigation
systems.
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Actual yields and production, consisting of spatially explicit crop production
estimates including crop harvested area, yield and production figures for 23 major commodities.
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Yield and production gaps, which provide important information on locations with
differences between actual achieved and potential attainable yield and production under different management scenarios.
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