FAOSTAT (FAO)
National crop production and trade for 245 countries, 1961–present. The global counterpart to NASS Quick Stats.
What this is
FAOSTAT covers production, yield, trade, food supply, emissions, and land use at the national level for 245 countries from 1961 to present. Available via REST API and bulk download. License note: FAOSTAT is CC-BY 4.0, but the FAO corporate license includes a restriction against using FAO data in a way that implies FAO endorsement of a product or service — i.e., do not use FAOSTAT data in commercial promotional materials in a manner that suggests FAO backs your product. Attribution is required; commercial use is otherwise permitted. This is a narrower restriction than a full NC clause, but it is worth noting if the integration is commercial.
Why we surface it
NASS answers US crop statistics. FAOSTAT answers everywhere else. Grounding field-level signals in national production context requires a dataset that operates at the same geographic scope.
What you can do with it
Shown for commercial use. Personal, research, and nonprofit use is often more permissive — switch the verdict lens on the catalog.
- Internal / individual use
- Free to use for any purpose, including commercial and AI training. Nothing's triggered until you share it.
- Redistribute the data
- Fine to use and redistribute, including commercially. One string attached: credit the original source wherever it shows up.
- Republish a derivative
- Build on it and republish freely, commercial or not. You must credit the original source in what you ship.
- Build into a private product
- Fine to build into a closed or commercial product. Attribution is still owed wherever the data is actually exposed to users.
This decoder is a starting point, not legal advice. For commercial deployment, run the actual license terms past someone who reads them for a living.
○ Planned
Not in the map yet — this source is on the V1 backlog. Schema, sample, and citation slots fill in once the layer ships.