CSI sub-index.

Animal Agriculture Land-Use Index.

Tracks land allocated to animal agriculture, including grazing and feed cropland. Less land use lifts the sub-index.

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Provisional

103.66

Sub-index value for 2026.

-0.00

Change from the previous snapshot.

15/101 of the CSI · Pressure reduction. Static candidate release as of 21 August 2026. The 2026 label is the nowcast period; the stored period-end timestamp is not a future operational update.

Animal Agriculture Land-Use Index is one of the eight first-class sub-indexes the CSI composes. It maps onto the animal_agriculture_land_use metric, carries a raw priority weight of 15/101 and a pressure reduction direction factor. This page drills into its latest value, history, lenses, source-native members and evidence trail. Every value is computed from real sources, carries an explicit data-state label and stays provisional until the benchmark trusted gate passes.

Latest value

Provisional

103.66

Sub-index value for 2026.

-0.00

Change from the previous snapshot.

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Confidence score.

Static candidate release published/as-of 21 August 2026. The 2026 period-end timestamp is nowcast metadata, not a future collection or publication date.

Contribution to the CSI

Raw priority weight: 15/101, that is 15 of 101.
Direction factor: Pressure reduction (D = -1). A measured fall in this pressure lifts the sub-index.
Weighted contribution: 15.40 Provisional, the share this sub-index adds to the composed CSI for 2026.

Sub-index history

The chart uses the published series and has the same values listed in the data table below.

Sub-index history table
Period	Value	State
2000	99.869	Provisional
2001	99.827	Provisional
2002	99.931	Provisional
2003	100.356	Provisional
2004	101.281	Provisional
2005	101.607	Provisional
2006	101.738	Provisional
2007	101.952	Provisional
2008	102.248	Provisional
2009	102.507	Provisional
2010	102.608	Provisional
2011	102.417	Provisional
2012	102.016	Provisional
2013	102.075	Provisional
2014	102.135	Provisional
2015	102.581	Provisional
2016	102.857	Provisional
2017	102.512	Provisional
2018	102.633	Provisional
2019	102.626	Provisional
2020	102.747	Provisional
2021	102.709	Provisional
2022	102.763	Provisional
2023	103.668	Provisional
2024	103.663	Provisional
2025	103.661	Provisional
2026	103.660	Provisional

This sub-index is oriented to the CSI, so it falls as animal-agriculture land use rises. A declining line means the real-world metric is increasing, which records more animal-agriculture pressure and lowers the CSI. The inversion allows the sub-index to enter the CSI; it does not mean the activity itself is shrinking.

What this sub-index measures

Measured item: Permanent meadows and pastures: FAOSTAT domain RL, item 6655, element 5110, scope WORLD, unit million hectares.
Baseline window: 2000-2004
Note: The certified metric ingests item 6655 only (upt-csi configs/sources.free_public.v1.yaml, dataset faostat_land_use, element_codes [5110], item_codes [6655]; 6610 and 6620 are crosscheck items). Values are FAOSTAT '1000 ha' divided by 1000.
Proposed change: ADR-016 (csi-v1.2.0 track): extend the measured scope beyond pasture. Not active in the served csi-v1.1.0.

The measured pasture series beside the series it does not measure, per scope. Change is first-to-latest; versus baseline compares the latest value with the 2000-2004 baseline-window mean. G20 is scope G20_SOVEREIGN_19: the 19 sovereign G20 members summed per year.
Scope	Series	First	Latest	Latest period	Change	Vs baseline
G20	Permanent meadows and pastures (RL 6655) (measured)	1847.5 Mha	1744.0 Mha	2023	-5.6%	-4.7%
G20	Cropland (RL 6620) (not measured)	912.4 Mha	909.4 Mha	2023	-0.3%	-0.5%
G20	Agricultural land (RL 6610) (not measured)	2759.9 Mha	2653.4 Mha	2023	-3.9%	-3.3%
WORLD	Permanent meadows and pastures (RL 6655) (measured)	3381.3 Mha	3229.5 Mha	2023	-4.5%	-3.8%
WORLD	Cropland (RL 6620) (not measured)	1491.7 Mha	1571.5 Mha	2023	+5.3%	+5.1%
WORLD	Agricultural land (RL 6610) (not measured)	4873.3 Mha	4799.3 Mha	2023	-1.5%	-1.1%
WORLD	Feed allocation (FBS 5521) (not measured)	728248 1000 t	1195741 1000 t	2023	+64.2%	+58.3%

Findings

World permanent meadows and pastures (FAOSTAT RL 6655) fell 4.5% from 3381 Mha in 2000 to 3230 Mha in 2023; the G20 (19 sovereign members) fell 5.6%.
World cropland (FAOSTAT RL 6620) grew 5.3% (+80 Mha) over the same period while G20 cropland was -0.3%; world agricultural land (6610) moved -1.5%.
World feed allocation (FBS element 5521, families 2905/2911/2913, FBSH-to-FBS splice at 2013 as in the certified aggregator) rose 58% against the 2000-2004 window mean (summed tonnage). The per-family geometric-mean index, the shape the certified feed sub-index uses, stands at 1.78 in 2023 versus the 2000-2004 median baseline, +75% against the 2000-2004 window mean of that index.
The certified land-use sub-index measures pasture only (item 6655) with direction -1 and therefore reads the pasture-to-feed-cropland shift as an improvement; the cropland that grows animal feed is outside its scope. See ADR-016 for the proposed csi-v1.2.0 remedy (pasture plus feed-attributed cropland).
The served series is WORLD scope (iso3 WLD) although the sub-index surface labels its lens 'g20'; the G20 block here is the sum over the 19 sovereign members and is evidence only.

Generated from upt-csi/data/collected/faostat/faostat_land_use.csv (sha256:af2079c62f3c2a89361c0aab1c244986a89d0e35b83eaa7dee51de99d9bb9551), upt-csi/data/collected/faostat/faostat_food_balances.csv (sha256:8a57999458bcaa5761cf0666e2a0b4243fed766cc111303cd2d49eaf65ec203f), upt-csi/data/collected/faostat/faostat_food_balances_historic.csv (sha256:348953798f714fd87f152a7324b5974ca7fb39585b17a1020d948d61dea0717f).

Lenses

The CSI consumes the canonical sub-index. A lens is a filtered view for inspection and is never counted into the CSI a second time.

Canonical sub-index (canonical) · showingG20 lens

Scope

Artefact lens id: g20 · member scope: WORLD; the lens id and measured member scope differ. The members are WORLD-scope observations, and the CSI consumes this canonical sub-index.

Evidence trail

Methodology version: csi-v1.1.0 · sub-indexes sub-indexes-v1.0.0
Methodology hash: sha256:4eeec13bdb90c15fffc0a0ae73cbc8e42b771dc9b2e79ae6efb4de3109ef904d
Source bundle hash: sha256:118f33da6800532c4405d7bdee6247092b709c3a5df969431bef5e428b8afc40
Snapshot hash: sha256:ddc36e4d4576c0bd292da5f152135e6c1729409e620c39b99a20d760cfe76234
Supersedes: No previous snapshot in this series.

Source-native members

Lowest-resolution contributing observations, keyed by source system and source-native code; the descriptor is context, not identity.
Member type	Source system	Native code	Harmonised value	Member lineage	Source lineage
source_series	`faostat_pasture`	`WLD`	96.34	`sha256:5f2eec41316c…`	`sha256:af2079c62f3c…`
source_series	`wb_agricultural_land`	`WLD`	96.34	`sha256:31283c4ef33f…`	`sha256:474293286837…`

Optics references

The source registry, publication calendar, freshness and source-to-index mapping behind this sub-index live on Global Optics.