Abstract
Agricultural performance is influenced by environmental conditions, management decisions and economic circumstances. It is important to quantify their respective contribution to allow for detecting major hazards to production, projecting future yields under climate change and deriving adaptation options. For this purpose, time series of agricultural yields with high spatial and long-term temporal resolution are a primary requisite. Here we present a data set of crop performance in France, one of Europe’s major crop producers. The data set comprises ten crops (barley, maize, oats, potatoes, rapeseed, sugarbeet, sunflower, durum wheat, soft wheat and wine) and covers the years 1900 to 2018. It contains harvested area, production and yield data for all 96 French départements (i.e. counties or NUTS3 level) with a total number of 375,264 data points. Entries until 1988 have been digitized manually from statistical yearbooks. The technical validation indicates a high consistency of the data set within itself and with external resources. The data set may contribute to an enhanced understanding of the manifold influences on agricultural performance.
Highlights
Future food provision may be challenged by several factors: climate change, growing global population, shift of dietary patterns, increasing soil degradation and higher pressure on land[1,2,3]
To better understand and quantify these influences, a comprehensive data base of historical agricultural performance is of salient importance
We present such a data set for France, a major crop producer, with 5%, 2%, 8%, 14%, 4% and 8% of the global production of wheat, maize, barley, sugar beet, sunflower and rapeseed in 2014, respectively
Summary
Background & SummaryFuture food provision may be challenged by several factors: climate change, growing global population, shift of dietary patterns, increasing soil degradation and higher pressure on land[1,2,3]. We present such a data set for France, a major crop producer, with 5%, 2%, 8%, 14%, 4% and 8% of the global production of wheat, maize, barley, sugar beet, sunflower and rapeseed in 2014, respectively. The crops are barley, maize, oats, potatoes, rapeseed, sugarbeet, sunflower, durum wheat, soft wheat and wine.
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