DeDuCE: Deforestation and carbon emissions due to agriculture and forestry activities from 2001-2023

Documentation

The manuscript detailing the model and the dataset is published at Nature Food: Singh, C., & Persson, U. M. Global patterns of commodity-driven deforestation and associated carbon emissions. Nat Food 7, 138–151 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-026-01305-4.

The insights from this dataset and future updates can also be viewed at: https://www.deforestationfootprint.earth.

Overview

This dataset provides country-level estimates of agriculture and forestry-driven deforestation and associated carbon emissions for the period 2001-2023, annually. A sub-national level attribution dataset is available for Brazil. Generated by the Deforestation Driver and Carbon Emission (DeDuCE) model, it amalgamates remotely sensed datasets with extensive agricultural statistics to estimate deforestation attributable to agricultural and forestry activities globally. Developed utilizing Google Earth Engine and Python, DeDuCE comprehensively covers over 9300+ unique country-commodity deforestation-carbon footprints across 180+ countries and 180+ commodities within the specified period, presenting an unmatched scope and granularity of data.

Repository contents

From this point onwards, this repository will no longer be updated. All content—and any future updates—will be maintained in the Zenodo dataset: Singh, C., Persson, U. M., Croft, S., Kastner, T., & West, C. D. (2026). Commodity-driven deforestation, associated carbon emissions and trade 2001-2023 (2.1) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18953516.

Contact

If you have any questions, you can contact us at:        

      Chandrakant Singh and U. Martin Persson         Email: [e-mail]         Physical Resource Theory, Department of Environmental and Energy Sciences,         Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden