Global Pasture Watch - Annual maps of potential land for livestock production at 1-km for 2000–2022 (including production systems)

Maps produced by per-pixel integration of cultivated and natural/semi-natural grassland (Parente et al., 2024) and cropland extent (Potapov, et al., 2022) considering fractions of land use inside 1 km2 grid cell. For this, a global map of agricultural production systems (Venier-Cambron, et al., 2024) was used to establish fraction thresholds for livestock supported by:

• Natural/semi-natural grassland systems,
• Multivated grassland systems,
• Mosaic cropland and grassland systems, and
• Cropland systems.

The annual time series (2000-2022) of integrated maps provided 1 km spatial resolution ranging from 1–100%, with potential land used for livestock production. 

Related resources

• Maps of livestock headcount for 2000—2022 (FAOSTAT-adjusted):
  All animals (Part-1)  All animals (Part-2)
• Maps of livestock density for 2000—2022 (including 95% prediction interval):
  Cattle  Goats  Sheep  Horses  Buffaloes
• Livestock reference census data (2000–2022):
  CSV and GeoPackage files
• Maps potential land for livestock production for 2000—2022 (including production systems)
  Raster files
• Data catalogues:
  OpenLandMap STAC Google Earth Engine