10.5880/PIK.2019.009 Porwollik, Vera Vera Porwollik 0000-0001-5866-8538 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany Rolinski, Susanne Susanne Rolinski Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany Müller, Christoph Christoph Müller 0000-0002-9491-3550 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany GFZ Data Services 2019 tillage plowing soil management gridded data Conservation Agriculture ploughing EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > AGRICULTURAL PLANT SCIENCE > CROPPING SYSTEMS EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > SOILS Porwollik, Vera Vera Porwollik 0000-0001-5866-8538 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany Heinke, Jens Jens Heinke 0000-0001-5256-0024 Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany Porwollik, Vera Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany 2005 2018-10-01 2005 Dataset 10.5880/PIK.2019.010 http://www.fao.org/nr/water/aquastat/data/query/index.html http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home?uuid=221072ae-2090-48a1-be6f-5a88f061431a 10.1111/gcb.12838 10.1371/journal.pone.0105992 10.7910/DVN/DHXBJX/LVRJLF 10.7910/dvn/dhxbjx/k5hvuk http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/solaw/files/thematic_reports/SOLAW_thematic_report_3_land_degradation.pdf 10.5194/essd-2018-152 https://datahelpdesk.worldbank.org/knowledgebase/articles/906519-world-bank-country-and-lending-groups 10.5880/PIK.2018.012 DOI of final ESSD Paper Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL) Tillage is a central element in agricultural soil management and has direct and indirect effects on processes in the biosphere. Effects of agricultural soil management can be assessed by soil, crop, and ecosystem models but global assessments are hampered by lack of information on type and spatial distribution. This dataset is the result of a study on global classification of tillage practices and the spatially explicit mapping of crop-specific tillage systems for around the year 2005.


This global gridded tillage system data set is dedicated to modeling communities interested in the quantitative assessment of biophysical and biogeochemical impacts of land use and soil management on cropland. The data set is complemented by the publication of the R- code and can be used for reproducing and build upon for scenarios including the expansion of sustainable soil management practices as Conservation Agriculture (Porwollik et al. 2018, http://doi.org/10.5880/PIK.2018.013). Both, the data set and the R-code are described in detail in Porwollik et al. (2018, ESSD).


We present the mapping result of six tillage systems for 42 crop types and potential suitable Conservation Agriculture area as the following variables:


We present the mapping result of six tillage systems for 42 crop types and potentially suitable Conservation Agriculture area as variables:
1 = conventional annual tillage
2 = traditional annual tillage
3 = reduced tillage
4 = Conservation Agriculture
5 = rotational tillage
6 = traditional rotational tillage
7 = Scenario Conservation Agriculture area


Reference system: WGS84
Geographic extent: Longitude (min, max) (-180, 180), Latitude (min, max) (-56, 84)
Resolution: 5 arc-minutes
Time period covered: around the year 2005
Type: NetCDF


Dataset sources (with indication of reference):


1. Grid cell allocation key to country: IFPRI/IIASA (2017, cell5m_allockey_xy.dbf.zip)
2. Crop-specific physical cropland: IFPRI/IIASA (2017, spam2005v3r1_global_phys_area.geotiff.zip)
3. SoilGrids depth to bedrock: Hengl et al. (2014)
4. Aridity index: FAO (2015)
5. Conservation Agriculture area: FAO (2016)
6. Income level: World Bank (2017)
7. Field size: Fritz et al. (2015)
8. GLADIS - Water erosion: Nachtergaele et al. (2011)


CHANGELOG for Version 1.1
improved calculation and mapping, for details see README.PDF


This tillage dataset is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/.
5 arc-minute (0.083333... degree) -180 180 -56 84 German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) 10.13039/501100002347 01LN1317A MACMIT project