Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Agro-MAPS
Agro-MAPS is an interactive web-based information system on land use which contains statistics on primary food crops, aggregated by sub-national administrative districts, on crop production, area harvested and crop yields. The database was originally developed as a joint initiative by FAO, IFPRI (the International Food Policy Institute), SAGE (The Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment) and CIAT (The International Center for Tropical Agriculture) to support a variety of applications being developed separately by the three institutions. Agriculture is a major source of employment and use of land in many developing countries. The raw statistics and directly derived information available through Agro-MAPS therefore represent a limited, yet very important component of land use.