Data for article Agricultural input shocks affect crop yields more in the high-yielding areas of the world

This repository contains the agricultural input data of 12 crops used in the article analysis. The agricultural inputs used are (unit in parentheses):

nitrogen (kg/ha)

phosphorus (kg/ha)

potassium (kg/ha)

machinery (1000 metric horsepower cv)

herbicides (original kg/ha, for analysis rescaled by dividing with 97.5th percentile)

fungicides (original kg/ha, for analysis rescaled by dividing with 97.5th percentile)

insecticides (original kg/ha, for analysis rescaled by dividing with 97.5th percentile)

other pesticides (original kg/ha, for analysis rescaled by dividing with 97.5th percentile)

soil organic carbon (t/ha)

soil phosphorus (mg/kg(

soil nitrogen (t/ha)

non-mineral nitrogen (kg/ha)

non-mineral phosphorus (kg/ha)

irrigation (% of area under irrigation)

agricultural workers (persons)

This repository also includes the analysis results of yields after agricultural input shocks. This data is in
rasters named e.g. wheat_phosphorus_shock_75.tif, meaning that this file contains the yield data (t/ha) for wheat after a 75% shock in phosphorus input. Rasters are provided for the following:

yields after 25%, 50% or 75% nitrogen shock

yields after 25%, 50% or 75% phosphorus shock

yields after 25%, 50% or 75% potassium shock

yields after 25%, 50% or 75% machinery shock

yields after 25%, 50% or 75% pesticide shock

yields after 25%, 50% or 75% shock in all fertilizers (fertilizer shock)

yields after 25%, 50% or 75% shock in all inputs

In addition, the observed crop yield (t/ha) used to construct the model is provided. Other yield rasters are:

modelled baseline yield (t/ha), used to calculate the yield changes in shock scenarios

modelled zero input yield (t/ha), calculated as a scenario with zero fertilizers, machinery and pesticide inputs

Please see the article for references on the datasets.