Global Sustainable Land Management Technologies - WOCAT

An approach defines the ways and means used to implement one or several Technologies. It describes technical and material support, involvement, and roles of different stakeholders, etc. An Approach can refer to a project/ programme or to activities initiated by land users themselves. Source: WOCAT Glossary: https://www.wocat.net/en/glossary

Global Soil Organic Carbon Map v1.5 is the first global soil organic carbon map ever produced through a consultative and participatory process involving member countries, which makes this map totally new and unique. In fact, the map was prepared by member countries, under the guidance of the Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils and the Global Soil Partnership Secretariat. Countries agreed on the methodology to produce the map and were trained on modern tools and methodologies to develop national maps. The Global Soil Partnership then gathered all national maps to produce the final product, ensuring a thorough harmonization process. The dataset comes along with a technical report presenting methodologies and process of compiling the Global Soil organic Carbon Map. The link to download the report is available in the on-line resources. **Data revision:** 2019-06-01 **Supplemental Information:** No data value : -3 Unit : t/ha Scale Factor : 1.0 Map code : GSOCMAP1-5-0 **Contact points:** Resource Contact: [Yusuf Yigini](mailto:GSP-Secretariat@fao.org) Metadata Contact: [CBL Global Soil Partnership](mailto:GSP-Secretariat@fao.org) **Data lineage:** Information on data quality at https://openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/c3ccec0d-fe75-49b7-9a4c-ee0a8777fed9/content **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC-BY-4.0) **Online resources:** Download the data from Google Cloud Storage Download - GSOC-Map Technical Report Global Soil Partnership GSOCmap Contributors

The Digital Soil Map of the World is a global vector dataset based on the original FAO-UNESCO World Soil Map, published in 10 volumes and 19 cartographic sheets from 1972 to 1977. The digitized soil map, in geographic projection (latitude - longitude) and at a scale of 1:5,000,000, was intersected with a layer containing hydrographic features (coasts, lakes, glaciers, and dual-course rivers) and, with the exception of the African continent, with the map of national boundaries obtained from the World Data Bank II (United States Government) updated in January 1994 at a scale of 1:3,000,000. For Africa, national boundaries were derived from the boundaries of the Original FAO/UNESCO World Soil Map of the World. In both cases, national boundaries have been verified and, where necessary, adjusted based on FAO and UN conventions. The Digital Soil Map of the World in PDF and GIS formats is available for download in the **Data and Resources** section of this metadata. Maps and legends can be also found on the **FAO Soil Portal**, along with the related reports, for the following regions: North America, Mexico and Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, South Asia, North and Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australasia. **Data revision:** 2007-02-28 **Contact points:** Resource Contact: [ Land and Water Division](mailto:land-and-water@fao.org) Metadata Contact: [FAO-Data](mailto:fao-data@fao.org) **Data lineage:** More information regarding the production and use of the digital soil map of the world can be found in the layer (.lyr), legend (.avl), readme and excel files contained in the zip files available for download. Please note that the Digital Soil Map of the World is also available in a raster version at 5 arc minutes resolution. **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC-BY-4.0) **Online resources:** Digital Soil Map of the World - ESRI shapefile format Digital Soil Map of the World - Erdas format Digital Soil Map of the World (by Regions) - Erdas format Digital Soil Map of the World - IDRISI format Digital Soil Map of the World - high resolution map (PDF format - 28MB) Harmonized World Soil Database FAO Soils Portal: FAO/UNESCO Soil Map of the World

This map builds upon work done by Dixon (Dixon et al., 2001) in an attempt to propose a general classification of major farming systems. Based on a combination of global dataset, the map proposes a harmonized classification of major agricultural systems used as the basis for the analysis of SOLAW's Systems at risk. The map is based on an interpretation of global land cover data, combined with thematic datasets showing irrigated land and paddy rice extent. The map is published in SOLAW Report: The state of the world's land and water resources for food and agriculture - Managing systems at risk (2011) and SOLAW Thematic Report 15: Sustainable options for addressing land and water problems - a problem tree and case studies (links in the online resources section). **Data publication:** 2010-11-02 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [AQUASTAT](mailto:aquastat@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Jippe Hoogeveen](mailto:Jippe.Hoogeveen@fao.org) Resource Contact: Hubert George FAO-UN Land and Water Division **Data lineage:** The spatial datasets used for the production of this map consist of: - GLOBCOVER, global land-cover map for the year 2005 at http://www.gofc-gold.uni-jena.de/sites/globcover.php - Paddy rice systems (Ellis and Ramankutty, 2008) - Median altitude and thermal climates (both datasets are part of the GAEZ v3.0 (IIASA/FAO, 2010) - Global Map of Irrigation Areas v4.0.1 at 5 arc-min (Siebert at al., 2007) - Global Map of Aridity at 10 arc-min (FAO) - Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL 2008) - FAO’s Global Livestock Production and Health Atlas (GLiPHA, available at: http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/home/en/news_archive/AGA_in_action/glipha.html) - FAO’s Agro-MAPS, available at (http://kids.fao.org/agromaps/) **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC-BY-4.0) **Online resources:** SOLAW website Download - Agricultural systems (ESRI GRID) Download - Agricultural systems - (ASCII grid with Vat table and class codes) Download - Agricultural systems (GeoTiff) The state of the world's land and water resources for food and agriculture - Managing systems at risk. Sustainable options for addressing land and water problems - a problem tree and case studies.

A homogenized, global set of 1,125 soil profiles is presented. These profiles have been extracted from the database developed at ISRIC for a project on "World Inventory of Soil Emission Potentials" (WISE), as a contribution to the activities of the Global Soils Data Task Group of IGBP-DIS. The subset consists of a selection of 665 profiles originating from digital data files released by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS, Lincoln), 250 profiles obtained from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, Rome), and 210 profiles from the reference collection of the International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC, Wageningen). All profiles are georeferenced and classified in the FAO-Unesco Legend whereby they can be linked to the edited and digital version of the FAO-Unesco Soil Map of the World. This data set is being released in the public domain for use by global modellers and other interested scientists. It is envisaged that the data set will be expanded by ISRIC when new, uniform soil profile data become available. Note: a) A more recent version (some 10,000 profiles) of WISE profiles is available at: http://data.isric.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a351682c-330a-4995-a5a1-57ad160e621c (2009) b) For a larger compilation see the WoSIS database: http://isric.org/explore/wosis (2017)

This file provides an overview of the site locations where profiles (or point data) in WoSIS are located. Depending on the type of survey, one or more profiles can occur within a site in accordance with ISO 28528 soil domain conventions. WoSIS_latest is a 'dynamic dataset' that contains the most recent complement of quality-assessed and standardised soil data served from WoSIS (ISRIC World Soil Information Service). Being dynamic, this dataset will grow/change once new point data are acquired and standardised, additional soil properties are considered, and/or when possible amendments are required. Static snapshots of wosis_latest are released at irregular intervals for consistent citation purposes, see https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-4735-2024 and WoSIS FAQ-page (https://www.isric.org/explore/wosis/faq-wosis).