The Farmland Atlas

Where will the land still be worth farming?

Climate is quietly redrawing the map of good farmland. Maybe you want to put money into land, trade the city for a few acres, or just see where the world is heading. The Farmland Atlas scores every place on Earth for how good it will be to farm in 2050, 2070 and 2100, on the same public science the researchers use.

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Plate I · The shift

The old map of good ground is expiring.

The breadbaskets that fed the last century were set by a climate that is now changing. Rainfall is moving. Rivers that irrigated whole valleys are thinning. Heat that crops cannot survive is creeping away from the equator. Land that is prime today may not be in thirty years, and land nobody wants today may become the next frontier.

The question is no longer where good farmland is. It is where it will still be.

Plate II · The atlas

Every place on Earth, scored.

We cut the planet into a fine grid and give every cell a score from 0 to 100 for long-term farmland viability, across three future horizons and four climate pathways. Click any spot and you get a field note: the full breakdown of why it scored the way it did, from growing-degree days to water stress to how far it sits from a market.

Plate III · The method

Two honest questions, answered with numbers.

A place is only as good as its worst essential, so we do not average. We use a weighted geometric mean, where a single failing factor (no water, no rule of law) drags the whole score down, the way it would in real life. Every weight is deliberate and written down. No black box.

Land, the physical ground:

Climate

Growing season length, frost-free days, extreme-heat load, and how well the temperature fits real crops.

Water

Rainfall and aridity, water stress on the basin, projected depletion, and how wildly the wet years swing to dry.

Land quality

Soil fertility and structure from the world soil databases, blended with terrain and slope.

Hazards

Earthquake risk and coastal-flood exposure, so the ground you pick is ground that stays put.

Institutions, the human ground:

Governance

Rule of law, property rights, and political stability. Great soil you cannot legally hold is not an asset.

Economy

Projected growth and inflation across your chosen horizon, not just where a country sits today.

Access

Real travel time to a market town and the nearest airport. Remote land feeds no one and sells to no one.

The headline score is the two blended together. Great soil under a failing state is not a farm you can keep. A stable country of pure desert is not one you can farm. The Atlas holds both in view at once.

Plate IV · The evidence

Built on the world’s best public science.

No vibes, no guesswork about individual places. Every score is assembled from peer-reviewed and institutional datasets, then combined through a documented model you can read.

WorldClim (CMIP6)Climate now and projected
FAO / HWSDSoil quality worldwide
ISRIC SoilGridsSoil chemistry
WRI AqueductWater stress and depletion
GEMSeismic hazard
Malaria Atlas ProjectTravel time to cities
JRC GHS-POPPopulation density
World BankGDP and growth
UN WPPPopulation trajectory
UCDPArmed-conflict record
OurAirportsAir access
GeoNamesPlaces and markets
Plate V · Who it is for

For anyone whose future runs through the land.

The investor

You made your money somewhere else, and you want to put some of it into ground that holds its value and grows it. The Atlas de-risks the map before you ever call a broker.

The mover

You are done with the city. You want a farm, a few acres, maybe an Airbnb in a valley that will still be green and livable in 2060. Start with where the water and the weather will hold.

The operator

You already farm. You are deciding where to expand, or where to move next, before the climate makes the decision for you.

The curious

You just want to see where the world is going. It is the most interesting map on the internet, and it costs nothing to read.

Plate VI · Go further

Free to explore. More when you are serious.

PRO

$9.99 / week or $49.99 / year

For when you stop browsing and start hunting.

  • Custom search across every variable on the map
  • The Land-quality and Climate-hazard layers
  • API and MCP access, so your AI agent can hunt for you
  • No sponsor placements

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Concierge

$4,900 per engagement

For serious buyers. Tell us what you are looking for and we research it by hand. You get five printed magazines, shipped to your door, plus a full PDF of exactly where to look and why.

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