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NASA Harvest Portal - FAO AQUASTAT & Ag-Water Data

NASA Harvest CKAN data portal hosting agricultural and water datasets including FAO AQUASTAT water-resources and irrigation indicators (180+ variables, 200+ countries) as downloadable CSV resources.

data.harvestportal.org

At a glance

Region
Global
Coverage
Global
Access
Free
Category
Research
Last updated
2025

What's inside

  • Irrigation
  • Water withdrawal
  • Water resources
  • Agriculture statistics

What you can do with it

Typical work that data of this type supports.

  1. 01

    Irrigation scheduling

    Decide when and how much to irrigate.

    Because it has: Irrigation

  2. 02

    Water accounting

    Track how much water crops actually consume across a command area.

  3. 03

    Crop stress

    Spot water stress early in the season.

Where AI adds value

Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.

  1. 01

    Field-scale ET

    Estimate crop water use per field by combining satellite and weather with ML.

  2. 02

    Demand forecasts

    Predict irrigation demand weeks ahead for canal and pump planning.

  3. 03

    Irrigated area maps

    Classify irrigated and rainfed fields from imagery.

Machine access and documentation

Open API

CKAN API (data.harvestportal.org) for dataset/resource queries and downloads

Licence: Open data

Listed in our registry of open water APIs, which WaterDataGPT can query live.

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