Tool Pool Report: The Crop Reporter’s Data

This post is part of a series on HarvestChoice data methodology. Today’s tool: the Crop Reporter.

Lablab, Egyptian Bean or Pulse? Reclassifying Crops for SPAM Conformity

Picture it. You're working at HarvestChoice processing incoming crop statistics and you come across some figures for harvested area of dolichos in Kenya.

Spatial Allocation of Agricultural Production

SPAM2000 (any version) is based on a large set of data which centers as much as possible on the year 2000: land cover / land use (Boston University’s MODIS-derived land cover 2000 and JRC’s GLC2000), crop suitability (Global AEZ Zones 2000 by FAO and IIASA), irrigated areas (FAO and CESR of University of Kassel), population density (CIESIN), and, most importantly, national and sub-national crops statistics for 2000.

Crop Reporter

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Publishing Details

Tool Type: 
Interactive data query
Publication Date: 
October, 2011
Publisher: 
HarvestChoice/International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Years Covered: 
1965 - 2005
Lowest Geographic Unit: 
Country

Abstract

Based on the country-level crop production statistics retrieved from FAOSTAT in 2006, this tool instantly shows users the custom ranking across countries and regions in terms of their reported harvest area, production, production value, and yield of major crops.

[Q] Maize Yield in Chad? You Have 1 Minute to Answer

Question

What's the reported level of maize yield in Chad? Or, how about for all Sub-Saharan Countries? What's the time trend of groundnut yield in Ghana? Please be quick; you have one minute to find the answers! OK, good questions.

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