Below is a timeline showing past and upcoming fixes and improvements. Data updates are generally published to this website the first Monday of every two months. We are currently expanding our repository of data with wheat rust maps and updated estimates of sub-national rural poverty headcount ratios and poverty gaps.
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Add rainfall variability layers
Lead:
Details: 2000-2008 (9 years, annual total rainfall, normalized coefficient of variation)
Release: Public, r13.04 Add UNEP conflict indicators to MAPPR
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: Possible layers were identified by Stan at http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2012/01/eye-on-unep-maps-vulnerability-to...
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.07, r12.09, r12.08, r13.02 
Review UNEP WCMC protected areas
Lead:
Details: HarvestChoice to decide whether to include in MAPPR application or not.
Release: Public, r12.09, r13.02 Add new livestock system raster layer
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: New domain variable.
Release: Public, r12.08, r12.12 Add new pasture raster layer
Lead: Ulrike Wood-Sichra
Details: Currently under review.
Release: Public, r12.08, r12.12 Update total, urban/rural population raster layers (using results from 5 new household surveys)
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: 5 new surveys have been processed by Carlo and need to be rasterized into CELL5M.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06, r12.07, r12.08, r12.12 Re-classify HCh grid to match GAUL 2005 level-1 administrative units (country boundaries)
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: Using new global link table between HarvestChoice 5-arc minute grid and GAUL 2005.
Release: Public, r12.12 Update '05 poverty headcount ratios (adding results from 5 new household surveys)
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: Five new surveys have been analyzed and are to be included in HCh under $1.25 and $2/day poverty headcount ratios.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06, r12.07, r12.08, r12.12 Improve variable meta-data
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: Update HCh variable inventory with Louise's latest edits and corrections.
Release: Public, r12.12 Add UNEP conflict indicators to MAPPR
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: Possible layers were identified by Stan at http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2012/01/eye-on-unep-maps-vulnerability-to...
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.07, r12.09, r12.08, r13.02 Review UNEP WCMC protected areas
Lead:
Details: HarvestChoice to decide whether to include in MAPPR application or not.
Release: Public, r12.09, r13.02 Add UNEP conflict indicators to MAPPR
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: Possible layers were identified by Stan at http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2012/01/eye-on-unep-maps-vulnerability-to...
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.07, r12.09, r12.08, r13.02 Add new livestock system raster layer
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: New domain variable.
Release: Public, r12.08, r12.12 Add new pasture raster layer
Lead: Ulrike Wood-Sichra
Details: Currently under review.
Release: Public, r12.08, r12.12 Update total, urban/rural population raster layers (using results from 5 new household surveys)
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: 5 new surveys have been processed by Carlo and need to be rasterized into CELL5M.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06, r12.07, r12.08, r12.12 Update '05 poverty headcount ratios (adding results from 5 new household surveys)
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: Five new surveys have been analyzed and are to be included in HCh under $1.25 and $2/day poverty headcount ratios.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06, r12.07, r12.08, r12.12 Add UNEP conflict indicators to MAPPR
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: Possible layers were identified by Stan at http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2012/01/eye-on-unep-maps-vulnerability-to...
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.07, r12.09, r12.08, r13.02 Update total, urban/rural population raster layers (using results from 5 new household surveys)
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: 5 new surveys have been processed by Carlo and need to be rasterized into CELL5M.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06, r12.07, r12.08, r12.12 Update '05 poverty headcount ratios (adding results from 5 new household surveys)
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: Five new surveys have been analyzed and are to be included in HCh under $1.25 and $2/day poverty headcount ratios.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06, r12.07, r12.08, r12.12 Add time-series NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) to HCh
Lead: Zhe Guo
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.07 Break out statistics for South Sudan
Lead: Ulrike Wood-Sichra
Details: Sudan and South Sudan are currently aggregated.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06, r12.07 Labs post: complete documentation of poverty headcount estimations using updated vector maps
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: This is currently documented in a Labs post at http://harvestchoice.org/labs/readme_poverty but would be good to provide more details as well as sub-regional maps showing key estimates (headcount ratios, poverty gaps, severity). Planning to use latest vector maps produced by Joe.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06 Update total, urban/rural population raster layers (using results from 5 new household surveys)
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: 5 new surveys have been processed by Carlo and need to be rasterized into CELL5M.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06, r12.07, r12.08, r12.12 Update '05 poverty headcount ratios (adding results from 5 new household surveys)
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: Five new surveys have been analyzed and are to be included in HCh under $1.25 and $2/day poverty headcount ratios.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06, r12.07, r12.08, r12.12 Break out statistics for South Sudan
Lead: Ulrike Wood-Sichra
Details: Sudan and South Sudan are currently aggregated.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06, r12.07 Labs post: complete documentation of poverty headcount estimations using updated vector maps
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: This is currently documented in a Labs post at http://harvestchoice.org/labs/readme_poverty but would be good to provide more details as well as sub-regional maps showing key estimates (headcount ratios, poverty gaps, severity). Planning to use latest vector maps produced by Joe.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06 Add UNEP conflict indicators to MAPPR
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: Possible layers were identified by Stan at http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2012/01/eye-on-unep-maps-vulnerability-to...
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.07, r12.09, r12.08, r13.02 Update total, urban/rural population raster layers (using results from 5 new household surveys)
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: 5 new surveys have been processed by Carlo and need to be rasterized into CELL5M.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06, r12.07, r12.08, r12.12 Update '05 poverty headcount ratios (adding results from 5 new household surveys)
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: Five new surveys have been analyzed and are to be included in HCh under $1.25 and $2/day poverty headcount ratios.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06, r12.07, r12.08, r12.12 Add time-series NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) to HCh
Lead: Zhe Guo
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.07 Break out statistics for South Sudan
Lead: Ulrike Wood-Sichra
Details: Sudan and South Sudan are currently aggregated.
Release: Public, r12.05, r12.06, r12.07 Fix poverty headcount ratios for Chad
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: Ulrike identified errors in TPOV_PT200 (under $2/day poverty headcount ratio). Make sure fix is sent to ETL.
Release: Public, r12.04 Re-scale SPAM v3r6 production and area estimates to 2005 FAOSTAT country totals
Lead: Ulrike Wood-Sichra
Details: Use 2004-2006 averages from FAO production statistics to rescale SPAM 2000. This new version is available upon request and not yet published to the HarvestChoice website.
Release: Public, r12.03 Verify SPAM 2000/05 estimates for Rwanda and Burundi
Lead: Ulrike Wood-Sichra
Details: Ulrike identified possible errors on 02/20/12.
Release: Public, r12.03 Fixing missing gridcells and country mis-classification between HarvestChoice administrative units and HarvestChoice grid
Lead: Melanie Bacou
Details: Fix inconsistencies between ISO3 classification (i.e., country code names) in [cell5m_main] and in [cell5m_hcadmin]
Release: Public, r12.03