Data for article Agricultural input shocks affect crop yields more in the high-yielding areas of the world

This repository contains the agricultural input data of 12 crops used in the article analysis. The agricultural inputs used are (unit in parentheses):

• nitrogen (kg/ha)
• phosphorus (kg/ha)
• potassium (kg/ha)
• machinery (1000 metric horsepower cv)
• herbicides (original kg/ha, for analysis rescaled by dividing with 97.5th percentile)
• fungicides (original kg/ha, for analysis rescaled by dividing with 97.5th percentile)
• insecticides (original kg/ha, for analysis rescaled by dividing with 97.5th percentile)
• other pesticides (original kg/ha, for analysis rescaled by dividing with 97.5th percentile)
• soil organic carbon (t/ha)
• soil phosphorus (mg/kg(
• soil nitrogen (t/ha)
• non-mineral nitrogen (kg/ha)
• non-mineral phosphorus (kg/ha)
• irrigation (% of area under irrigation)
• agricultural workers (persons)

This repository also includes the analysis results of yields after agricultural input shocks. This data is in
rasters named e.g. wheat_phosphorus_shock_75.tif, meaning that this file contains the yield data (t/ha) for wheat after a 75% shock in phosphorus input. Rasters are provided for the following:

• yields after 25%, 50% or 75% nitrogen shock
• yields after 25%, 50% or 75% phosphorus shock
• yields after 25%, 50% or 75% potassium shock
• yields after 25%, 50% or 75% machinery shock
• yields after 25%, 50% or 75% pesticide shock
• yields after 25%, 50% or 75% shock in all fertilizers (fertilizer shock)
• yields after 25%, 50% or 75% shock in all inputs

In addition, the observed crop yield (t/ha) used to construct the model is provided. Other yield rasters are:

• modelled baseline yield (t/ha), used to calculate the yield changes in shock scenarios
• modelled zero input yield (t/ha), calculated as a scenario with zero fertilizers, machinery and pesticide inputs

Please see the article for references on the datasets.