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Data Use & Attribution

How you may use AgriNAT data, and what you must credit when you do.

Last updated: 2026-04-25

Short version

AgriNAT's aggregated dataset and visualisations are released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). You may copy, redistribute, transform, and build on the data for any purpose, including commercial, as long as you credit AgriNAT. The underlying source datasets keep their original licenses, which you must also honour.

License

All data products published by AgriNAT — the values shown in the assessment tool and the visualisations on this site — are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This means you are free to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) for any purpose, even commercially, provided you give appropriate credit, link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

How to attribute

When you reuse AgriNAT data or visualisations in a publication, report, presentation, dashboard, or downstream product, please include a credit line such as:

Data: AgriNAT — Agricultural Nature Assessment Tool (agrinat.eu), 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Underlying source datasets retain their original licenses.

For online use, the credit should link to https://agrinat.eu and to the CC BY 4.0 license page.

Upstream sources you must also honour

AgriNAT is a derivative work that combines and harmonises many open datasets. CC BY 4.0 covers our aggregations and visualisations. The underlying inputs keep the licenses set by their authors, and any reuse must respect those terms in addition to ours. The major sources are:

  • GADM (administrative boundaries) — free for academic and non-commercial use; commercial use requires permission. See gadm.org/license.html.
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species— attribution required; commercial reuse subject to IUCN's Terms of Use. See iucnredlist.org/terms.
  • UNEP-WCMC & IUCN — Protected Planet (WDPA) — non-commercial use under their data licence; commercial use requires written permission. See protectedplanet.net/en/legal.
  • LandMark — Indigenous & Community Lands — CC BY 4.0; attribution required.
  • FAOSTAT (production, trade) — CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO; attribution required, non-commercial, share-alike.
  • IFVI — Value Factors for natural capital — open with attribution.
  • WRI — Statistical land-use change methodology — attribution required.
  • UN Comtrade — free access with attribution under their Terms of Use.
  • Plus all academic datasets cited in the methodology page (Hill et al. 2022, Theobald et al. 2025, GBIF, GEDI, VIIRS NPP, GRDI, UNDP HDI, Fortin et al. 2026, LandScan, and others). Each is cited in its original publication form.

If a downstream use conflicts with any upstream license — for example, a commercial product based on FAOSTAT data without FAO permission — that use is not permitted, regardless of AgriNAT's CC BY 4.0 grant.

What you may not do

  • Republish AgriNAT data or visualisations without crediting AgriNAT (CC BY 4.0 attribution clause).
  • Imply that AgriNAT endorses your product, organisation, or conclusions.
  • Strip attribution from underlying sources or misrepresent their licenses.
  • Use the AgriNAT name, logo, or domain in a way that suggests official partnership or affiliation that does not exist.
  • Apply technological measures that legally restrict others from doing what the CC BY 4.0 license permits.

Methodology and limitations

AgriNAT estimates are statistical attributions, not ground-truth measurements. They reflect the assumptions and coverage gaps of their input datasets — see the methodology page for the full treatment, including known coverage limitations (e.g. indigenous and community lands across Southeast Asia). Users redistributing AgriNAT data should communicate these limitations alongside the values.

Questions or takedown requests

For data-use questions, attribution clarification, or to report misuse, email [email protected].