Dataset of the suitability of major food crops in Africa under climate change

The database contains suitability of 23 major crops (eight cereals, six legumes and pulses, six root and tuber crops, and three banana-related-related crops). The cereals included are maize, sorghum, pearl millet, finger millet, wheat, rice, teff and fonio. The legumes and pulses crops are cowpea, peanut, bambara nut, common bean, soybean and chickpea. The root and tuber crops are cassava, cocoyam, sweet potato, white yam, potato and tannia. The banana-related family crops are highland bananas, plantains and enset. For each crop the suitability score [0-1) and suitability class [0,1] are provided for current climate and for 2050 average climatic conditions for cereals, legumes and pulses, root and tuber crops, and banana and related across Africa. For future projected suitability we provide the suitability score and class derived from the thresholds in the calibration with SPAM data. These results are provided for each of the 10 GCMs used as well as the mean of the climate models. The changes in the area can therefore be calculated for each crop from the suitability maps.