Harmonized sub-national crop statistics on area, production, and yield, collected for the EU from National Statistical Institutes and the Eurostat REGIO Database. The dataset is created by the Food Security Unit of the Joint Research Centre (JRC.D.5) of the European Commission.
The data or resource appears as "Harmonised sub-national crop statistics of the European Union".
The harmonization method is described in Ronchetti et al. (2024)
European Commission’s Joint Research Centre
European Commission’s Joint Research Centre
Dilli R. Paudel
Crops: Durum wheat, Grain maize, Soft wheat, Spring barley, Sugar beet, Sunflower, Total barley, Total wheat, Winter barley
Variables [unit]: REGION [-], CROP_NAME [-], YEAR [-], VALUE (can be AREA [ha], PREDUCTION [t], YIELD [t/ha]).
Other columns: SOURCE (source of statistics), CALCULATED_R (Calculated using regions), CALCULATED_C (Calculated using crops), CALCULATED_V (Calculated value), COHERENCE_APY (Coherence between AREA, PRODUCTION, YIELD), ZERO_AS_NULL (Zero set as null), COHERENCE_CROP (Coherence between crop categories of wheat and barley), UoM (Unit of measure).
Temporal coverage: From: 1975 - To: 2020
Temporal resolution: Yearly
Spatial resolution: Subnational (NUTS version 2016). NUTS1, NUTS2 or NUTS3.
Date Published: 16/10/2023
Data Modality: Tabular data
Version: 2023.01
The resource document provides a link to Rationale that describes the algorithm used to harmonize the statistics.
The paper is shared with Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. The dataset is published on JRC Data Catalogue goog_1581929261. Therefore, the publisher agrees with Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of European Commission documents: Reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by a Decision of 12 December 2011.
The dataset also has the same license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Therefore redistribution and reuse is possible with proper attribution.
Cite the dataset as follows: Ronchetti, Giulia; Nisini-Scacchiafichi, Luigi; Seguini, Lorenzo; Cerrani, Iacopo; van der Velde, Marijn (2023): Harmonized European Union subnational crop statistics. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset]. doi: 10.2905/685949ff-56de-4646-a8df-844b5bb5f835 PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/685949ff-56de-4646-a8df-844b5bb5f835.
EC-JRC, 2024. JRC Agri4Cast Data Portal. https://agri4cast.jrc.ec.europa.eu/DataPortal/, Last accessed: Feb 22, 2024.
Ronchetti, G., Nisini Scacchiafichi, L., Seguini, L., Cerrani, I., and van der Velde, M.: Harmonized European Union subnational crop statistics can reveal climate impacts and crop cultivation shifts, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 16, 1623–1649, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-1623-2024, 2024.