Charting the Agricultural Land of South America
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Navin Ramankutty contributed this article to the CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security blog about how the EarthStat maps of cropland and pasture were created. It provides a high-level overview of agriculture and land use, a discussion of the methods used to create the maps, and his experiences teaching students about land use and global change.