Geospatial and Farming Systems Research Consortium Data Library
We provide a variety of data for a selection of countries.
Formats
Raster
Image type format intended for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Provided in GeoTiff with defalte compression. Should work with all major GIS applications including ArcGIS, QGIS, GDAL, and R. Unless otherwise noted all data has a 30 arc-second resolution grid (0.5 minutes, ~1 sq. km).
Vector
Points, lines or polygons format intended for use in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Provided as Shapefiles compressed inside of a Zip (Unzip to use). Should work with all major GIS applications including ArcGIS, QGIS, GDAL, and R. Accents, non-Latin text, and some special characters may not be correct.
Table
Comma seperated text files compressed inside a Zip (Unzip to use). Should work with spreadsheets, statistical programs, GIS, and databases.
Theme Zips
Zip compressed file containing all of the data listed under a given theme. Possible formats included are listed above.
Methods
All sources are cropped, and resampled when needed to the country borders as outlined in the GADM data source.