The raster dataset represents top location score areas suitable for soybean storage filtered by exclusive criteria: access to finance, distance to major roads and access to IT (mobile broadband connection).
Access to finance and roads are defined using a linear distance threshold:
• Banks - approx. 20km (0.18 degree) buffer radius.
• Major roads - approx. 2km (0.018 degree) buffer radius.
• Access to IT - applying a mobile broadband coverage map.
The location score is achieved by processing sub-model outputs characterizing logistical factors for crop warehouse siting: Supply, demand, Infrastructure/accessibility. The location score from 0 to 100 is then obtained through a simple arithmetic weighted sum of the normalized/scaled grids. The top 99th percentile is selected/clipped using the exclusive criteria.
This 500m resolution raster dataset is part of FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) aimed at the identification of value chain infrastructure sites (optimal location).
Data publication: 2023-05-22
Contact points:
Metadata Contact: FAO-Data
Resource Contact: Dariia Nesterenko
Data lineage:
Major data sources, FAO GIS platform Hand-in-Hand and OpenStreetMap (open data) including the following datasets:
- Human Population Density 2020 – WorldPop2020 - Estimated total number of people per
grid-cell 1km.
- Mapspam Production – IFPRI's Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM) estimates of crop distribution within disaggregated units.
- OpenStreetMap.
- Altas AI - Asset Wealth Index 2020.
- Mobile Broadband Coverage produced based on: Coverage Data © Collins Bartholomew and
GSMA 2021.
Resource constraints:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC- SA 3.0 IGO)
Online resources:
Download: Crop Storage Final Location: Soybean (Cameroon - ~ 500m)
