Global Pasture Watch - Annual maps of potential land for livestock production at 1-km for 2000–2022 (including production systems)

Maps produced by per-pixel integration of cultivated and natural/semi-natural grassland (Parente et al., 2024) and cropland extent (Potapov, et al., 2022) considering fractions of land use inside 1 km2 grid cell. For this, a global map of agricultural production systems (Venier-Cambron, et al., 2024) was used to establish fraction thresholds for livestock supported by:

Natural/semi-natural grassland systems,

Multivated grassland systems,

Mosaic cropland and grassland systems, and

Cropland systems.

The annual time series (2000-2022) of integrated maps provided 1 km spatial resolution ranging from 1–100%, with potential land used for livestock production. 

Related resources

Maps of livestock headcount for 2000—2022 (FAOSTAT-adjusted):All animals

Maps of livestock density for 2000—2022 (including prediction interval):Cattle  Goat   Sheep  Horse

Livestock reference census data (2000–2022):CSV and GeoPackage files

Maps potential land for livestock production for 2000—2022 (including production systems)Raster files

Data catalogues:OpenLandMap STAC Google Earth Engine