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Global Croplands Expand

Over the past two decades, global croplands expanded by 9 percent, with differing expressions on different continents.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using data from Potapov, Peter, et al. (2022). Story by Adam Voiland.

Published March 24, 2022
Data acquired 2003 - 2019

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Landsat 8 > OLI
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
Food and Agriculture