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Dataset Report
UID: FSTTQ230.0.0
Name: FAOSTAT QCL Pollinated Crops
Title: FAOSTAT data on production of pollinated crops
Status: Approved
Version: v. 1.0
Date: 2025-04-01
Author: Rubinigg Michael
Citation proposal:
Rubinigg M. 2025 Report of dataset FAOSTAT QCL Pollinated Crops, v. 1.0 [FSTTQ230.0.0]. EU Pollinator Hub. [2025-04-15] app.pollinatorhub.eu
Compliance with FAIR* principles
Findable
Accessible
Interoperable
Reusable
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Data Quality
Good
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Document History

Release

Version v. 1.0 released on 2025-04-15. Written by Rubinigg Michael. Reviewed by Rubinigg Michael.

Revision

Table 1. List of revisions made to the document. Identifier of revision (No); date of revision (Date); description of revision (Description); reason for revision (Reason).
No Date Description Reason
1 2025-04-15 09:04:59 Initial release. N.A.

Abbreviations

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Executive Summary

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Introduction

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Material and Methods

Data Acquisition

File Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_(Normalized).zip was downloaded from the website of the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database FAOSTAT provided by FAO on 2025-04-01 14:37:21.

Table 2. List of raw data and metadata files included in the dataset. Identifier of table row (No); name of the file (File); the type of the file (Type); file contains data (D); file contains metadata (M); date of upload of the file to the EU Pollinator Hub (Arrival); number of data points contained within the file (if applicable); uploaded file size.
No File Type D M Arrival Data points File size
1 FAOSTAT_PP_area harvested_PREP_MR_250401.csv CSV - Comma seperated values Yes No 2025-04-01 16:04:06 4,859,596 42.74 MiB
2 FAOSTAT_PP_yield_PREP_MR_250401.csv CSV - Comma seperated values Yes No 2025-04-01 16:04:55 4,221,588 35.64 MiB
3 FAOSTAT_PP_production_PREP_MR_250401.csv CSV - Comma seperated values Yes No 2025-04-01 16:04:39 5,289,788 45.16 MiB
4 QCL_methodology_e.pdf Miscellaneous No Yes 2025-04-01 16:04:38 n/a 134.32 KiB
5 Q_Revision_Note_e.pdf Miscellaneous No Yes 2025-04-01 16:04:34 n/a 602.13 KiB
6 cd3755en.pdf Miscellaneous No Yes 2025-04-01 16:04:33 n/a 681.06 KiB
7 history_updates.csv Miscellaneous No Yes 2025-04-01 16:04:05 n/a 2.35 KiB

Data Preparation

Raw data files were processed using a SQL database (MariaDB foundation, server version 10.4.32) running in an XAMPP environment (BitRock, version 5.2.1).

Data Validation

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Data Description

Dataset

Table 3. Summary of tables belonging to the dataset. Table row identifier (No); name of the table (Table); description of the table (Description).
No Table Description
1 Area harvested World production (are harvested) of crops requiring pollination by animals according to Klein et al. 2007, given in ha.
2 Yield World production (yield) of crops requiring pollination by animals according to Klein et al. 2007, given in kg/ha.
3 Production World production (production) of crops requiring pollination by animals according to Klein et al. 2007, given in t.
Table 4. Standardised metadata of the dataset. Reported parameter (Parameter); content of the parameter (Content).
Parameter Content
UID FSTTQ230.0.0
Name FAOSTAT QCL Pollinated Crops
Title FAOSTAT data on production of pollinated crops
IRI https://app.pollinatorhub.eu/dataset-discovery/FSTTQ230.0.0
Licence CC BY 4.0
DOI n/a
Creation date 2025-04-01
Publishing date 2025-02-28
Contact information n/a
Keywords FAOSTAT, crops, pollination, production
Data collection years n/a
Regions, the data was collected in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Ascension Island, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas (the), Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Brazil, British Antarctic Territory, British Indian Ocean Territory (the), Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Byelorussian SSR, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Canton and Enderbury Islands, Cayman Islands (the), Central African Republic (the), Chad, Chile, China, Christmas Island, Clipperton Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands (the), Colombia, Comoros (the), Congo (the Democratic Republic of the), Congo (the), Cook Islands (the), Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Curaçao, Cyprus, Czechia, Czechoslovakia, Côte d'Ivoire, Dahomey, Denmark, Diego Garcia, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic (the), Dronning Maud Land, East Timor, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (the) [Malvinas], Faroe Islands (the), Fiji, Finland, France, France, Metropolitan, French Afars and Issas, French Guiana, French Polynesia, French Southern Territories (the), French Southern and Antarctic Territories, Gabon, Gambia (the), Georgia, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Gilbert and Ellice Islands, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Holy See (the), Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Iraq, Ireland, Island of Sark, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Johnston Island, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (the Democratic People's Republic of), Korea (the Republic of), Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People's Democratic Republic (the), Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macao, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands (the), Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Midway Islands, Moldova (the Republic of), Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands (the), Netherlands Antilles, Neutral Zone, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger (the), Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Macedonia, Northern Mariana Islands (the), Norway, Oman, Pacific Islands (Trust Territory), Pakistan, Palau, Palestine, State of, Panama, Panama Canal Zone, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines (the), Pitcairn, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation (the), Rwanda, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French part), Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sikkim, Singapore, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, South Sudan, Southern Rhodesia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan (the), Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic (the), Taiwan (Province of China), Tajikistan, Tanzania, the United Republic of, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tristan da Cunha, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands (the), Tuvalu, Türkiye, USSR, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates (the), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the), United States Minor Outlying Islands (the), United States Miscellaneous Pacific Islands, United States of America (the), Upper Volta, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam, Viet-Nam, Democratic Republic of, Virgin Islands (British), Virgin Islands (U.S.), Wake Island, Wallis and Futuna, Western Sahara, Yemen, Yemen, Democratic, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Åland Islands
Description

This dataset contains data related to crops that require pollination by animals according to Klein et al. 2007 from the FAOSTAT crop and livestock statistics. It includes also the relevant metadata published by FAO.

Table 5. Standardised metadata of the data provider Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Reported parameter (Parameter); content of the parameter (Content).
Parameter Content
Name Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
URL
Acronym FAO
IRI https://app.pollinatorhub.eu/data-providers/food-and-agriculture-organization-of-the-united-nations
Address
Country Italy
Contact information www.fao.org
Description

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that helps governments and development agencies coordinate their activities to improve and develop agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and land and water resources.

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