GEOGLAM Crop Monitor

"Higher prices pushed an additional 40 million people into hunger in 2008 alone."

Since 2013, Crop Monitor for AMIS has been published monthly within the AMIS Market Monitor, covering the four major AMIS crops (wheat, maize, soybean, and rice) for the AMIS producer countries responsible for over 80 percent of global production. 

In February 2016, building on the success of the Crop Monitor for AMIS, GEOGLAM partnered with some of the major global food security organizations to develop a Crop Monitor for countries at risk of food insecurity. The Crop Monitor for Early Warning (CM4EW) was created in response to the even greater need for similar crop condition information in countries at risk of famine and where early warning of potential impacts to production is critical to trigger early action by humanitarian and aid organizations. In contrast to the Crop Monitor for AMIS, which monitors the four major crops for production and export, the CM4EW focuses monitoring on the main food security crops within each region.

Over 40 partners from around the world contribute to producing the Crop Monitor reports, including government ministries, space agencies, and NGOs. Below is an interactive map of our partners, with overlapping partners listed in alphabetical order.

Click on the red dots to look through CM partners.

Within the Crop Monitor web-based interface, where partners go to submit crop conditions, two important resources were compiled by the Crop Monitor initiative for use within the interface including crop spatial extent (Crop Mask) and the crop growth stages (Crop Calendars) at the sub-national level which provide contextual information to current conditions.

In addition to the contextual information on crop spatial extent ( Crop Masks ) and crop growth stages ( Crop Calendars ), up-to-date satellite-based indicators of crop conditions provide additional information to analysts to inform their reporting. These include, but are not limited to...

Through collaboration with the main agricultural monitoring agencies, since 2013, the Crop Monitor has been able to provide timely and science-driven information on global crop conditions on a monthly basis in support of market transparency and early warning of production shortfalls.

In a short amount of time, Crop Monitor has become an internationally recognized source of reliable information on crop conditions and is often used to inform decisions about allocation of specific resources by national governments and humanitarian organizations and is cited regularly by news agencies and the media.

Combined, the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor reports provide monthly consensus crop conditions for 93 percent of all global agricultural lands. These reports provide important updates to market and price communities as well as application to food security and early warning.