Introduction to Comparative Politics: Environment & Agriculture

Data on global land use and crops.

Hosted by NASA's Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) and Columbia University's CIESIN (Center for International Earth Sciences Information Network); provides access to data on sustainability, the environment, and human impact.

Statistics from the UN's agricultural and fisheries agency; start with FAOSTAT (over 1 million records from 210+ countries and territories).

The UN Environmental Programme's (UNEP) data on land management, climate, environment, and more.

From the UN Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC), GHG data for countries that are Parties to the Climate Change Convention.

Database of social, economic, environmental, and political indicators compiled by the World Resources Institute. *This is no longer being updated but still has useful source information.*

Geospatial datasets plus many household surveys on food and nutrition, institutional surveys on pricing and production, and social accounting matrices across many countries.

Compares countries for environment, public health, and "ecosystem vitality."