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. 2016 Jul 7;5:885. Originally published 2016 May 13. [Version 2] doi: 10.12688/f1000research.8657.2

Table 1. DCL crop area in ‘000’s of hectares in 18 priority farming systems worldwide.

FARMING
SYSTEMS
REGION BARL BEAN CHKP COWP GRDN LENT PMIL PSML PPEA SORG SOYB FABAB TOTAL
Cereal-root
crop mixed
SSA 26 573 32 2,983 2,949 1 4,649 128 78 9,594 295 19 21,328
Maize mixed SSA 81 2,175 107 387 977 7 655 432 431 1,976 309 70 7,607
Agro-pastoral
millet/sorghum
SSA 2 169 1 3,489 1,751 0 7,551 0 8 5,596 108 15 18,691
Pastoral SSA 65 77 21 2,070 725 7 4,798 9 0 2,955 14 66 10,808
Rice-wheat SA 461 1,575 1,966 0 277 977 4,012 144 543 966 362 0 11,283
Rainfed mixed SA 161 3,951 4,062 4 4,014 595 2,628 1,697 2,149 4,226 7,276 0 30,763
Dry rainfed SA 0 496 1,030 0 1,168 0 1,148 68 735 3,829 210 0 8,685
Highland
mixed
MENA 1,704 83 524 0 1 189 1 67 0 291 75 28 2,961
Rainfed mixed MENA 1,197 22 94 0 26 69 5 2 0 17 1 156 1,589
Dryland mixed MENA 3,486 6 126 0 7 125 0 11 0 10 7 62 3,841
Pastoral MENA 737 18 40 0 13 37 0 19 0 120 4 11 1,001
Maize-beans
(Mesoamerica)
LAC 277 783 30 0 23 8 0 0 1 597 15 17 1,750
Large scale
cereal-
vegetable
EECA 5,927 44 2 0 0 1 0 309 0 30 634 1 6,948
Small scale
cereal-
livestock
EECA 2,057 59 235 0 6 181 0 2 0 0 0 9 2,550
Extensive
cereal-
livestock
EECA 8,322 5 12 0 0 6 0 535 0 22 250 6 9,161
Lowland rice EAP 408 2,436 1 39 2,805 16 53 28 18 91 2,696 187 8,778
Upland
intensive
mixed
EAP 154 1,167 86 65 1,629 20 522 25 436 170 3,336 258 7,869
Temperate
mixed
EAP 75 259 1 0 1,202 16 209 3 0 264 4,178 333 6,539
TOTAL 25,141 13,899 8,371 9,039 17,576 2,257 26,233 3,477 4,399 30,754 19,770 1,236 162,152