Global Food Security & Agricultural Resilience Dataset
Purpose
To create a harmonised country-year dataset for studying food production, crop yields, agricultural land, nutrition, population, and development trends across the world.
Source Datasets & Licences
Primary sources: FAOSTAT and selected World Bank indicators.
FAOSTAT statistical databases are available under CC BY 4.0 with attribution requirements. The project dataset will document the exact FAOSTAT domains, World Bank indicators, dates retrieved, and every DataLab transformation.
What You Will Learn
- Working with agriculture and food-security data
- Selecting indicators for a research question
- Harmonising units, years, countries, and variable names
- Checking data completeness and comparability
- Preparing panel datasets for research and visualisation
- Writing clear methodology and limitation notes
Expected Tasks
Participants may be assigned to:
- Extract crop-production, yield, food-supply, or agriculture indicators
- Standardise measurement units and time periods
- Map countries to international codes
- Identify missing or inconsistent observations
- Merge data into the master panel
- Draft data dictionary entries and source citations
- Validate final outputs against original source files
Timeline & Weekly Commitment
- Week 1: Orientation, indicator allocation, and source extraction
- Week 2: Cleaning, unit checks, and country harmonisation
- Week 3: Merging, validation, and gap review
- Week 4: Documentation, quality assurance, and final release preparation
Expected commitment: 4–6 hours per week.
Fee & What It Covers
Your $25 participation fee covers guided project delivery, templates, source-data workflow guidance, task supervision, quality review, contributor tracking, and a certificate for qualifying participants.
Contributor Recognition Requirements
Participants qualify for recognition by completing approved assigned work, meeting deadlines, following documentation standards, and responding to review feedback.
Project Rules & Consent
All participants must preserve source attribution and comply with applicable licence conditions. DataLab will determine final contributor roles based on verified work completed.