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[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 23 points 6 months ago

Shows well why Ukraine is so important as an exporting farming country, they've got a lot of the green.

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 8 points 6 months ago

Yeah, definitely not the best

[–] thedarkfly@feddit.nl 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I tried to swap the awful colormap... I don't know if it's any better, I hope so!

https://images2.imgbox.com/fa/00/CEWRzviK_o.png

Edit: ah, the rivers were already blue...

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Love this. Anyone knows what land resilience means ?

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I've found a Wikipedia article about it:

Soil resilience refers to the ability of a soil to resist or recover their healthy state in response to destabilising influences. This is a subset of a notion of environmental resilience. Soil resistance, a related term refers to the ability of soil to resist changes or the extent to which a soil will recover from any cropping or management change. The term is distinct from Soil resilience as resistance is the inherent capacity to withstand disturbance, while resilience is the capacity to recover after disturbance.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago
[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Why would the USDA need a map like this for the whole world? Sus.

E: Lots of down votes but nobody has a good answer eh?

[–] ElderWendigo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The USA does not produce agricultural products in a vacuum. We live in a time of global markets requiring global intelligence to support the decisions of local agriculture. The war in Ukraine has been a pretty clear lesson on that topic.

Also, the US has a history of building and supporting infrastructure projects that are global in reach and benefit, even if they were executed with American interests first. This mostly takes the form of global scientific data products made public. GPS is another high profile project originally designed to benefit the U.S. and later made publically available not just to U.S. citizens and interests, but globally public.

Why do they do it? Obviously because the U.S. is an evil empire bent on global dominance and destruction. /s

[–] baggins@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 months ago
[–] JamesFire@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Planning on taking over the world, obviously.