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Service Description: Global distribution of cattle. Livestock contributes directly to the livelihoods and food security of almost a billion people, and affects the diet and health of many more. With estimated standing populations of 1.43 billion cattle, 1.87 billion sheep and goats, 0.98 billion pigs, and 19.60 billion chickens, reliable and accessible information on the distribution and abundance of livestock is needed for a many reasons. These include analyses of the social and economic aspects of the livestock sector; the environmental impacts of livestock such as the production and management of waste, greenhouse gas emissions and livestock-related land-use change and large-scale public health and epidemiological investigations. The Gridded Livestock of the World (GLW) database produced in 2007provied modeled livestock densities of the world, adjusted to match official (FAOSTAT) national estimates for the reference year 2005, at a spatial resolution of 3 minutes of arc (about 5 x 5 km at the equator). Recent methodological improvements have significantly enhanced these distributions: More up-to date and detailed sub-national livestock statistics have been collected; a new, higher resolution set of predictor variables is used; the analytical procedure has been revised and extended to include a more systematic assessment of the model accuracy and the representation of uncertainties associated with the predictions.

Values represent head densities (values per square kilometer) - Country totals are adjusted to FAOSTAT values in 2006

Map Name: Global distribution of cattle

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Layers: Tables: Description: Global distribution of cattle. Livestock contributes directly to the livelihoods and food security of almost a billion people, and affects the diet and health of many more. With estimated standing populations of 1.43 billion cattle, 1.87 billion sheep and goats, 0.98 billion pigs, and 19.60 billion chickens, reliable and accessible information on the distribution and abundance of livestock is needed for a many reasons. These include analyses of the social and economic aspects of the livestock sector; the environmental impacts of livestock such as the production and management of waste, greenhouse gas emissions and livestock-related land-use change and large-scale public health and epidemiological investigations. The Gridded Livestock of the World (GLW) database produced in 2007provied modeled livestock densities of the world, adjusted to match official (FAOSTAT) national estimates for the reference year 2005, at a spatial resolution of 3 minutes of arc (about 5 x 5 km at the equator). Recent methodological improvements have significantly enhanced these distributions: More up-to date and detailed sub-national livestock statistics have been collected; a new, higher resolution set of predictor variables is used; the analytical procedure has been revised and extended to include a more systematic assessment of the model accuracy and the representation of uncertainties associated with the predictions.

Values represent head densities (values per square kilometer) - Country totals are adjusted to FAOSTAT values in 2006

Copyright Text: FAO, ILRI, ULB-LUBIES

Spatial Reference:
102100

Single Fused Map Cache: true

Capabilities: Map,TilesOnly

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Min Scale: 5.91657527591555E8
Max Scale: 4622324.434309

Min LOD: 0
Max LOD: 7

Units: esriMeters

Supported Image Format Types: PNG

Export Tiles Allowed: false
Max Export Tiles Count: 100000

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