Africa Open DEAL (Open Data for Environment, Agriculture, and Land) is an initiative set up by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the African Union Commission that collected continental-scale land use data across Africa between 2018 and 2020. The project aimed to support African nations' capacities to monitor, report, and analyse environmental change through open-data geospatial technologies. The data survey classified 26% of land in Africa as forest, and also identified 7 billion additional trees outside of forests.