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Water debt for the annual production of nine major crops globally at 5 arcmin resolution for the year 2000

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

Gridded data of water debt for year 2000. The water debt expresses the number of years required by the hydrological cycle to replenish the water source (soil moisture, surface water, ground water) that have been used to accomplish the annual production of nine major crops. The considered crops are: wheat, maize, rice, soybean, sugar cane, sugar beet, cotton, barley, sorghum. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/45cb218c-b050-4ee8-8c87-73d3895a111f

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
45cb218c-b050-4ee8-8c87-73d3895a111f
Extent (Latitude)
90° to -90°
Extent (Longitude)
-180° to 180°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2023-01-26
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Tuninetti, M., Tamea, S., Dalin, C. (2023). Water debt for the annual production of nine major crops globally at 5 arcmin resolution for the year 2000. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/45cb218c-b050-4ee8-8c87-73d3895a111f
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(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng