FAO datasets on land use, land use change, agriculture and forestry and their applicability for national greenhouse gas reporting

May 2008

One of the core functions of The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is to collect and disseminate information related to the subject areas covered by the organization, among them natural resources, land use, agriculture and forestry. The organization collects country information through a handful of different reporting processes, and compiles it as global data sets, available in periodically published reports and on the FAO websites. FAO is considered as the main authoritative source of information on land use, agriculture and forestry at global and regional level, and data published by the organization is widely used for many different purposes.
This paper aims at giving an overview of FAO’s global and regional datasets that may prove useful for compilers of national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories. It also describes some of FAO’s experience from the application of existing IPCC guidelines and gives some suggestions on how the FAO datasets can be used together with the IPCC guidelines for modeling emissions.

By: L. G. Marklund, C. Batello (FAO)

 
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