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.

SPAM to Feed Forthcoming Global Yield Gap Atlas

A group of researchers from the University of Nebraska and Wageningen University are setting out to determine just that through the production of an atlas.

Yield Target and Poverty Reduction Model for South Asia

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Yield Target and Poverty Reduction Model for South Asia

Publishing Details

Tool Type: 
Model
Publication Year: 
2011
Publisher: 
HarvestChoice/International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Years Covered: 
2010 - 2030
Lowest Geographic Unit: 
Country

Abstract

Comparative static model used to estimate long-term aggregate potential yield gains and aggregate potential poverty reduction effects from narrowing yield gaps for selected commodities in selected regions. The model allows for differentiated yield gap closure and technology adoption scenarios in focus and non-focus countries and for focus and non-focus crops. The model also accounts for varying "poverty-productivity" elasticities across commodities (a synthetic measure linking productivity gains and poverty reduction).

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application/zip iconYieldTargetSA-Live_v5.zip

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.

DataTile v0.1

Layered information on a grid cell

Many of HarvestChoice spatial datasets are organized and released on 10-km grids. To make spatial analyses easier for researchers (even without having access to GIS platform), we put data layers from multiple themes together in one denormalized big table. This post describes the methodology and presents a prototype.

Crop Production: SPAM

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Publishing Details

Tool Type: 
Droppr
Publication Year: 
2009
Publisher: 
HarvestChoice/International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Years Covered: 
2000
Lowest Geographic Unit: 
5 arc-minute gridcell

Abstract

Dragging and dropping the red marker (Droppr) to any location in SSA provides information on:
• Country name
• District name
• Average cropping intensity (SPAM)
• Crop name (SPAM)

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