Here are a few examples of the many maps and map services that illustrate the vulnerability of food production, distribution, food safety, and international food security to changes in climate. For more examples of maps related to climate resilience and change, check out the Resilience Community Map Gallery.
View near real-time and historical crop data and conditions around the globe.
Contributors: USDA, Foreign Agricultural Service, International Production Assessment Division, NASA, ASRC
Cropscape – Cropland Data Layer
Web portal for viewing national cropland and agricultural data on a yearly basis.
Contributors: USDA
VegScape – Vegetative Condition Explorer
Interactive map application for viewing vegetation condition products such as NDVI, in the United States.
Contributors: USDA, NASA
Web portal for viewing various food security and food resilience services and layers, such as prices, socioeconomic status, and availability.
Contributors: USDA, Economic Research Service
Web portal for viewing food accessibility and travel distance for low income brackets.
Contributors: USDA, Economic Research Service
Atlas of Rural and Small-town America
Web map portal for viewing population changes and variables in rural America.
Contributors: USDA, Economic Research Service
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Data System
Map application illustrating the distribution and socioeconomic characteristics of SNAP participants in the United States.
Contributors: USDA, Economic Research Service
Poverty mapping datasets, services, and maps of global poverty, hunger, and other vulnerability conditions.
Contributors: NASA, SEDAC, Columbia University
National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP)
Web services of acquired aerial imagery during the agricultural growing seasons in the continental U.S., made available to the public within a year of acquisition.
Contributors: USDA, Farm Service Agency, National Geospatial Data Asset
Application for providing status maps of various information and data, such as soils, geographic boundaries, imagery, and watersheds.
Contributors: USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service, USGS, U.S. Census Bureau, ESRI