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{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Cropland area under conventional tillage",
    "description": "Cropland area on which tillage practices involve inversion (turning over) of the soil over the whole area with tillage operations including inversion tillage/ploughing using tillage tools or equipment, such as a mouldboard or disc plough or powered tillage equipment, such as a rotovator. It includes tilllage with traditional ploughs, of either wood or iron, drawn by animal power.",
    "id": "FAO-6664-5110",
    "dataset": "FAO-LU",
    "measurement_unit": "1'000 Ha",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "environment;land use;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Land, Climate Change & Environment;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-6664-5110"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Cropland area under conservation tillage",
    "description": "Cropland area on which tillage practices leave plant residues (at least 30-35 percent) on the soil surface for erosion control and moisture conservation. Soil should normally not be inverted but only ripped. Conservation tillage includes: i) Reduced tillage/ minimum tillage, preparing the land with equipment which does not invert the soil and which causes little compaction but which leaves some ripping lines. For this reason, the soil normally remains with a good cover of residues on the surface. Reduced tillage is usually carried out with specialized tined implement, such as a ripper. ii) Strip tillage, which involves strips being tilled to receive the seed, while the soil along the intervening bands is not disturbed and remains covered with residues such as mulch. iii) Ridge tillage, which is a system of ridges and furrows. The ridges may be narrow or wide and the furrows can be parallel to the contour lines or constructed with a slight slope, depending on whether the objective is to conserve moisture or to drain excess moisture. The surface is prepared by scraping off the top of a ridge, with the crops planted into the tops of the ridges formed during cultivation of the previous crop. The soil is covered with residue between the rows until planting. The ridges can be semi-permanent or be constructed each year, which will govern the amount of residue material that remains on the surface.",
    "id": "FAO-6665-5110",
    "dataset": "FAO-LU",
    "measurement_unit": "1'000 Ha",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "environment;land use;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Land, Climate Change & Environment;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-6665-5110"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Cropland area under zero or no tillage",
    "description": "Cropland area on which practices do not involve any tillage operations. After the seeding operation, not more than 25 percent of the soil surface is allowed to be disturbed. The soils are always covered, including for the period between harvest and sowing. The stubble is retained and the soil surface is covered by residue mulch or stubble for erosion control. Seeding/planting is done with special no-tillage/direct seeders, which are able to open a narrow slot of the soil (through soil cover), drop the seed and close the slot again. Zero tillage is carried out with implements such as direct planters or hand-jab planters. Seed can be also sown by broad casting into standing vegetation or into small holes in the ground intended for seed placement.",
    "id": "FAO-6666-5110",
    "dataset": "FAO-LU",
    "measurement_unit": "1'000 Ha",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "environment;land use;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Land, Climate Change & Environment;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-6666-5110"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Cropland area under organic agric.",
    "description": "Cropland area certified organic and/or in conversion to organic.",
    "id": "FAO-6668-5110",
    "dataset": "FAO-LU",
    "measurement_unit": "1'000 Ha",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "environment;land use;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Land, Climate Change & Environment;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-6668-5110"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Cropland area certified organic",
    "description": "Cropland area certified organic.",
    "id": "FAO-6669-5110",
    "dataset": "FAO-LU",
    "measurement_unit": "1'000 Ha",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "environment;land use;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Land, Climate Change & Environment;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-6669-5110"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Farm buildings & farmyards",
    "description": "Surfaces occupied by dwellings on farms, etc.: dwellings, operating buildings (hangars, barns, cellars, silos), buildings for animal production (stables, cowsheds, pig sheds, sheep pens, poultry yards), farmyards. Excludes buildings for agro-food manufacture and buildings in rural areas for exclusive residential purpose.",
    "id": "FAO-6775-5110",
    "dataset": "FAO-LU",
    "measurement_unit": "1'000 Ha",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "farmers;land use;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Land, Climate Change & Environment;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-6775-5110"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Coastal waters used for aquac. or holding facilities",
    "description": "Area of Coastal waters used for marine aquaculture facilities including supporting facilities. Aquaculture facilities include enclosures and pens (water areas confined by net, mesh and other barriers allowing uncontrolled water interchange), cages (open or covered enclosed structure constructed with net, mesh or any porous materials allowing natural water interchange), barrages (semi-permanent or seasonal enclosures formed by impervious man-made barriers and appropriate natural features) and rafts, ropes and stakes (raft, long lines or stakes used to culture shellfish and seaweeds). This category includes: Oyster beds and other types of shellfish (mussels, clams, abalones and scallops) Bodies of water used for seaweed production Bodies of water used for fish rearing",
    "id": "FAO-6641-5110",
    "dataset": "FAO-LU",
    "measurement_unit": "1'000 Ha",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "fisheries;land use;water management;",
    "related_themes": "Land Stakeholders & Institutions;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-6641-5110"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Land under temporary crops",
    "description": "Land used for crops with a less-than-one-year growing cycle, which must be newly sown or planted for further production after the harvest. Some crops that remain in the field for more than one year may also be considered as temporary crops e.g., asparagus, strawberries, pineapples, bananas and sugar cane. Multiple-cropped areas are counted only once. Previously known as "Temporary crops"",
    "id": "FAO-6630-5110",
    "dataset": "FAO-LU",
    "measurement_unit": "1'000 Ha",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "land use;sustainable land use;food security;agriculture;",
    "related_themes": "Land, Climate Change & Environment;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-6630-5110"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Land under perm. meadows and pastures",
    "description": "Land used permanently (five years or more) to grow herbaceous forage crops through cultivation or naturally (wild prairie or grazing land). Permanent meadows and pastures on which trees and shrubs are grown should be recorded under this heading only if the growing of forage crops is the most important use of the area. Measures may be taken to keep or increase productivity of the land (i.e., use of fertilizers, mowing or systematic grazing by domestic animals.) This class includes: Grazing in wooded areas (agroforestry areas, for example) Grazing in shrubby zones (heath, maquis, garigue) Grassland in the plain or low mountain areas used for grazing: land crossed during transhumance where the animals spend a part of the year (approximately 100 days) without returning to the holding in the evening: mountain and subalpine meadows and similar; and steppes and dry meadows used for pasture. Previously known as \"Permanent meadows and pastures\"",
    "id": "FAO-6655-5110",
    "dataset": "FAO-LU",
    "measurement_unit": "",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "pastoral lands;agropastoral systems;land use;",
    "related_themes": "Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-6655-5110"
}

{
  "indicator": {
    "label": "Inland waters",
    "description": "Inland waters are areas corresponding to natural or artificial water courses, serving to drain natural or artificial bodies of water, including lakes, reservoirs, rivers, brooks, streams, ponds, inland canals, dams, and other land-locked waters. The banks constitute limits whether the water is present or not.",
    "id": "FAO-6680-5110",
    "dataset": "FAO-LU",
    "measurement_unit": "",
    "picture": "",
    "related_landvoc_concepts": "land use;environment;water management;land investments;",
    "related_themes": "Land & Investments;Land, Climate Change & Environment;",
    "related_overarching_categories": ""
  }
}

{
  "source_url": "FAO-6680-5110"
}