Data underlying the publication: Small-scale and large-scale agriculture across water-scarce and water-abundant regions

DOI:10.4121/de21d6c2-95f7-42e5-a3cf-f5b66b559924.v5
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DOI: 10.4121/de21d6c2-95f7-42e5-a3cf-f5b66b559924

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Su, Han; Foster, Timothy; Hogeboom, Rick J.; Luna-Gonzalez , Diana; Willaarts, Bárbara et. al. (2025): Data underlying the publication: Small-scale and large-scale agriculture across water-scarce and water-abundant regions. Version 5. 4TU.ResearchData. dataset. https://doi.org/10.4121/de21d6c2-95f7-42e5-a3cf-f5b66b559924.v5
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We aim to estimate the geographic distribution of small-scale and large-scale agriculture across water-scarce and water-abundant regions, their blue and green water consumption, and the water stress (stress from a lack of blue water) and soil fertility stress on their crop. We combined three definitions of small-scale agriculture and used a soil fertility-enhanced crop model to estimate crop production and water consumption.


This dataset contains country-level and grid-level results (55 countries). Crop code is open source and freely available on GitHub (https://github.com/Han-Su22/ACEA) which is also archived in Zenado (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10510933) via a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. All the code, input data, and output data required to reproduce the results in this study will be archived for at least 10 years after publication within the University of Twente, Multidisciplinary Water Management (MWM) group. The MWM group will make the code and data available to anyone upon request.


A detailed method description and analysis can be found in the paper below (please also cite the paper when using the dataset). Feel free to contact the corresponding author Han Su (h.su@utwente.nl) when you have any questions.


Su, H., Foster, T., Hogeboom, R.J., Luna-Gonzalez, D.V., Mialyk, O., Willaarts, B., Wang, Y., Krol, M.S., 2025. Nutrient production, water consumption, and stresses of large-scale versus small-scale agriculture: A global comparative analysis based on a gridded crop model. Global Food Security 45, 100844.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2025.100844

History

  • 2024-01-08 first online
  • 2025-03-13 published, posted

Publisher

4TU.ResearchData

Format

*.csv

Organizations

University of Twente, Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET), Multidisciplinary Water Management (MWM); University of Manchester, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace & Civil Engineering; Water Footprint Network, Enschede, NL; Stockholm University, Stockholm Resilience Centre; International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria; Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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