Improved global cropland data as an essential ingredient for food security

Global Food Security

Volumn 4, Issue , 2015, Pages 37-45

  See, Linda ^a   Fritz, Steffen ^a   You, Liangzhi ^b,i   Ramankutty, Navin ^c   Herrero, Mario ^d   Justice, Chris ^e   Becker Reshef, Inbal ^e   Thornton, Philip ^f   Erb, Karlheinz ^g,j   Gong, Peng ^h,k   Tang, Huajun ⁱ   van der Velde, Marijn ^a   Ericksen, Polly ^f   McCallum, Ian ^a   Kraxner, Florian ^a   Obersteiner, Michael ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^g Institute of Social Ecology   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^j UNIVERSITY OF KLAGENFURT   (Austria)

^k TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

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Author keywords

Cropland; Crowdsourcing; Data sharing; Food security; Land cover

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922960186     PISSN: 22119124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2014.10.004     Document Type: Review

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