The digital global map of irrigation areas February, 2007 80° -180° -135° -90° 45° 0° -45° 90° 135° 180° 80° Area under irrigation in percentage of land area 0 10 - 20 <0.1 20 - 35 0.1 - 1 35 - 50 1 - 5 50 - 75 5 - 10 75 - 100 The map depicts the area equipped for irrigation in percentage of cell area. For the majority of countries the base year of statistics is in the period 1997 - 2002. http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/aglw/aquastat/irrigationmap/index.stm Projection: Mollweide Stefan Siebert, Petra Doll, Sebastian Feick (Institute of Physical Geography, University of Frankfurt/M., Germany) and Jippe Hoogeveen, Karen Frenken (Land and Water Development Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy) JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE UNIVERSITÄT FRANKFURT AM MAIN