crop_monfreda {geodata}

Monfreda crop data

Description

Monfreda global crop data (area, yield) for 175 crops.

Data may be freely used for research, study, or teaching, but must be cited appropriately (see below). Re-release of the data, or incorporation of the data into a commercial product, is allowed only with explicit permission.

Usage

monfredaCrops()
crop_monfreda(crop="", var="area_ha", path, ...)

Arguments

crop

character. Crop name(s). See monfredaCrops for valid names

var

character. The variable(s) of interest. Choose from "area_ha" (crop area in ha per cell), "area_f" (crop area as a fraction of each cell), "area_q" (quality of the crop area data), "yield" (crop yield in Mg/ha), "yield_q" (quality of the yield data), "prod" (production per grid cell in Mg), or "all"

path

character. Path for storing the downloaded data. See geodata_path

...

additional arguments passed to download.file

Value

SpatRaster

References

Monfreda, C., N. Ramankutty, and J. A. Foley (2008), Farming the planet: 2. Geographic distribution of crop areas, yields, physiological types, and net primary production in the year 2000, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 22, GB1022, doi:10.1029/2007GB002947.

See Also

http://www.earthstat.org/harvested-area-yield-175-crops/

Examples

# download may take > 5s
mcas <- crop_monfreda("cassava", path=tempdir())
mcas
names(mcas)