Africa Crop Rice - Harvested Area

<div><div style=''>Rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> and <i>O. glaberrima</i>) is one of the world's most important staple food crops. Over half of the world's population relies on rice. The people in some parts of Africa have been cultivating rice for over 3,500 years.</div><div style=''><br /></div><div style=''><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px; color:rgb(77, 77, 77);'><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><font size='4'>Dataset Summary</font></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'>This layer provides access to a <span style=''>5 arc-minute </span><span style=''>(approximately 10 km at the equator)</span><span style=''> </span><span style=''>cell-sized raster of the 1999-2001 annual average area of </span><span style=''>rice harvested in Africa. The data are in units of hectares/grid cell.</span></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><span style=''>The </span><span style=''>SPAM 2000 v3.0.6 data used to create this layer </span><span style=''>were produced by the </span><a href='https://www.ifpri.org/' rel='nofollow ugc' style='color:rgb(33, 117, 155);' target='_blank'>International Food Policy Research Institute</a><span style=''> in 2012. </span><span style=''>This dataset was created by spatially disaggregating national and sub-national harvest data </span><span style=''>using the </span><a href='https://mapspam.info/about/' rel='nofollow ugc' style='color:rgb(33, 117, 155);' target='_blank'>Spatial Production Allocation Model</a><span style=''>. </span></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><span style=''>          </span><br /></div></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px; color:rgb(77, 77, 77);'><a href='https://www.ifpri.org/publication/global-spatially-disaggregated-crop-production-statistics-data-2010-version-10' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Link to source metadata</a><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px; color:rgb(77, 77, 77);'><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px; color:rgb(77, 77, 77);'>For more information about this dataset and the importance of rice as a staple food see the <a href='https://harvestchoice.org/commodities/rice' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Harvest Choice webpage</a>.</div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px; color:rgb(77, 77, 77);'><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'>For data on other agricultural species in Africa see these layers:</div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><a href='https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=1f7863773c2649e5bb290b406c4d36f2' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Cassava</a><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><div><a href='https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=1f7863773c2649e5bb290b406c4d36f2' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Groundnut (Peanut)</a><br /></div><div><a href='https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=6fab7020446c43b0b44727d6cb134ae8' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Maize (Corn)</a><br /></div><div><a href='https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=5ef402b9fc2d4544bf72dfe740282bcf' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Millet</a><br /></div><div><a href='https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=a15e23a3fd734914a227b236e0ff715e' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Potato</a></div></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><a href='https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f64fbb5ac501469a8ae13543af55632b' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Sorghum</a><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><a href='https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=a2220563c2e04b99bbe600b0d192ac60' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Sweet Potato and Yam</a><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><a href='https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=db028cfc90a342d7b2f16ac7a9ad779b' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Wheat</a><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><span style=''>Data for important agricultural crops in South America are available </span><a href='https://www.arcgis.com/home/search.html?q=esri_landscape%20south%20america%20crop&amp;t=content' rel='nofollow ugc' style='' target='_blank'>here</a><span style=''>.</span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><font size='4'>What can you do with this layer?</font></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><div style=''><br /></div><div style=''>This layer is suitable for both visualization and analysis. It can be used in ArcGIS Online in web maps and applications and can be used in ArcGIS Desktop.</div><div style=''><br /><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'>This layer has <a href='https://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//00sp00000007000000' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>query</a>, <a href='https://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#//00s500000010000000' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>identify</a>, and <a href='https://resources.arcgis.com/en/help/main/10.2/index.html#/Downloading_data_from_an_image_service/00sp00000016000000/' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>export</a> image services available. This layer is restricted to a maximum area of 24,000 x 24,000 pixels <span style=''>which allows access to the full dataset.</span></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'>The source data for this layer are available <a href='https://mapspam.info/data/' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>here</a><span style='background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);'>.</span></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'>This layer is part of a larger collection of <a href='https://www.arcgis.com/home/group.html?id=38f9a41bdea24e9b9d913cedbfc9216b#overview' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>landscape layers</a> that you can use to perform a wide variety of mapping and analysis tasks.</div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'>The <a href='https://livingatlas.arcgis.com' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Living Atlas of the World</a> provides an easy way to explore the landscape layers and many other beautiful and authoritative maps on hundreds of topics.</div></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><a href='https://geonet.esri.com' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Geonet</a> is a good resource for learning more about landscape layers and the Living Atlas of the World. To get started follow these links:</div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><br /></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><a href='https://geonet.esri.com/blogs/onemap/2014/08/18/landscape-layers-a-re-introduction?sr=search&amp;searchId=2e9b2eb2-610d-4da9-aae2-748cd3a08f2d&amp;searchIndex=0' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Landscape Layers - a reintroduction</a></div><div style='margin:0px; padding:0px;'><a href='https://geonet.esri.com/groups/livingatlas?sr=search&amp;searchId=ec0b33d6-14bb-4319-8ad5-38961b68610e&amp;searchIndex=0' rel='nofollow ugc' target='_blank'>Living Atlas Discussion Group</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div style='text-align:Left;'><p>

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