Crop Storage Final Location: Vegetables (Guinea - ~ 500 m)

The raster dataset represents top location score areas suitable for vegetables storage, filtered by exclusive criteria: access to finance, distance to major roads, electricity and access to IT (mobile broadband connection).

Access to finance and roads are defined using a linear distance threshold: • Banks - 10km buffer radius. • Major roads - 2km buffer radius. Access to IT and electricity is characterized by applying the mobile broadband coverage map and the Atlas AI Electrification 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.

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: 2022-04-28

Contact points:

Resource 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:

1. Human Population Density 2020 – WorldPop2020 - Estimated total number of people per grid-cell 1km. https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/iso/304c21fb-0f5a-44ad-9948-2af6a7144fb5
2. Mapspam Production – IFPRI's Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM) estimates crop distribution
   within disaggregated units. https://data.apps.fao.org/map/catalog/srv/eng/catalog.search;jsessionid=4AA4D377D0F90E3328ACBDB5C21BFFC6?node=srv#/metadata/0c6be5d1-3a73-4516-953b-dbe2b511d6b3
3. OpenStreetMap.
4. Altas AI - Asset Wealth Index 2020 and Electrification 2021. https://docs.atlasai.co/economic%20well-being/asset_wealth/, https://docs.atlasai.co/infrastructure/electrification/.
5. Mobile Broadband Coverage produced based on: Coverage Data © Collins Bartholomew and GSMA 2021. https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/dataset/mobile-broadband-coverage-global-1km

Resource constraints:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC- SA 3.0 IGO)

Online resources:

Zipped raster TIF file for Crop Storage Final Location: Vegetables (Guinea - ~ 500 m)