The raster dataset represents top location score areas suitable for sesame seed 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. 10km buffer radius.
• Major roads - approx. 2km buffer radius.
Access to IT is characterized by applying the 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.
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: 2021-10-15
Contact points:
Metadata Contact: FAO-Data
Resource Contact: Justeen De Ocampo
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.
2. Mapspam Production – IFPRI's Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM) estimates of crop distribution within disaggregated units.
3. OpenStreetMap.
4. Altas AI - Asset Wealth Index 2020.
5. Mobile Broadband Coverage produced based on: Coverage Data © Collins Bartholomew and GSMA 2020.
Resource constraints:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC- SA 3.0 IGO)
Online resources:
Zipped TIF raster file for sesame seed final location (Sudan - ~ 500 m)
