Crop Storage Location Score: Sorghum (Mauritania - ~ 500m)

The raster dataset consists of a 500 m score grid for the crop storage location, produced under the scope of FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis for value chain infrastructure location.

The location score is achieved by processing sub-model outputs that characterize considered factors for crop warehouse location:

• Supply: Sorghum.

• Demand: Human population density, Major cities population (national and bordering countries).

• Infrastructure/accessibility: main transportation infrastructure.

• Socio-economic/poverty: Asset wealth index.

It consists of an arithmetic weighted sum of normalized grids (0 to 100):

("Crop Production" * 0.4) + ("Human Population Density" * 0.2) + (”Asset Wealth” * 0.1) + (“Major Cities Accessibility” * 0.1) + (“Regional Cities Accessibility” * 0.1) + (“Port Accessibility” * 0.1).

Data publication: 2022-10-11

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. https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/iso/304c21fb-0f5a-44ad-9948-2af6a7144fb5
  2. Mapspam Production – IFPRI's Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM) estimates of 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. Poverty – Atlas AI 2020. https://docs.atlasai.co/economic%20well-being/asset_wealth/

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 Location Score: Sorghum (Mauritania - ~ 500m)

Data and Resources

Additional Info

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Source https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/dataset/f5514479-bb35-4d81-a2fa-8c349aad0145
Last Updated November 21, 2022, 17:38 (CST)
Created November 21, 2022, 17:38 (CST)
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