Topics
Agroecology
Demographics
Farming
Productivity
Markets
Special Topics
Regions
Geographic Groups
Regional Entities
Income Regions
Donor Priority Countries
Commodities
Publishing Details
Dataset Type:
Spatial Dataset
Unit:
TLU
Publication Date:
April, 2015
Publisher:
HarvestChoice/International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Years Covered:
2005
Version:
SChEF r12.05
Contact:
Ulrike Wood-Sichra Abstract
Tropical Livestock Units are livestock numbers converted to a common unit (in 2005). Conversion factors are: cattle = 0.7, sheep = 0.1, goats = 0.1, pigs = 0.2, chicken = 0.01. Factors taken mostly from Chilonda, P. and J Otte. Indicators to Monitor Trends in Livestock Production at National, Regional and International Levels. Livestock Research for Rural Development, v.18, no.8, 2006. (http://www.lrrd.org/lrrd18/8/chil18117.htm), except for cattle. See also: Livestock Grazing Comparison, Wikipedia, 2010. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livestock_grazing_comparison)
Data Sources & Credits
HarvestChoice/International Food Policy Research Center (IFPRI), 2010. Calculations based on data from: Gridded Livestock of the World 2007, by G.R.W. Wint and T.P. Robinson. Rome, Italy: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2010.
Citation
HarvestChoice, 2015. "Tropical Livestock Units (TLU, 2005)." International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC., and University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN. Available online at http://harvestchoice.org/data/an05_tlu.
Additional Attributes
Geographic Coverage: West Africa, East & Central Africa, Southern Africa
Format/Platform: CSV and raster (GeoTIFF and ESRI ASCII Grid)
Keywords: Livestock, Livestock Production, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tropical Areas