This polygon shapefile represents the number of farms and total farm area by Dounum (1 Dounum = 1,000 square meters) in each of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates for 2005-2015. The original dataset was collected by the UAE government and hosted on Bayanat.ae. It was joined to the UAE administrative district level 1 boundaries from the Global Administrative Areas database by Taylor Hixson in 2018. This dataset is only to be used for academic purposes.