GTAP Land Use Data, Release 2.0, October 30, 2007:


***Key improvements:

A. updated SAGE land cover and land use data that include 175 crops vs. 19 reported in the Release 1.3

B. updated DGTM timberland area, forest carbon stock and land rent data
 
C. revised approach to eliminating land rents in non-ruminants to preserve overall factor intensities 
   in agriculture. 

D. revised approach to impose outside estimate of land rents in forestry.

E. Therefore, all GTAP headers are revised accordingly.




***Data files:

1. GTPLU18V60_AGMP_DEC06.HAR: GTAP land rents, by 18 AEZ (Ref. point E above regarding revision in this release).
2. SAGE_DATA.HAR: SAGE land cover and land use data (Ref. point A and C above regarding revisions in this release).
3. DGTM_DATA.HAR: DGTM timberland area, forest carbon stock and land rent data (Ref. point B and D above regarding revisions in this release).

