Jun 18, 2012 by Cindy Cox - 0 comments

IFPRI Magazine Features MAPPR: Mapping African Agriculture

The June 2012 issue of Insights, IFPRI’s quarterly magazine, talks up HarvestChoice’s increasingly popular online tool: MAPPR. So friendly to use that a writer and a graphics designer combined wits to create the MAPPR-generated visuals for the article.

Tags: Africa, Agroecology, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Mapping, MAPPR, Spatial Analysis, Sub-Saharan Africa, Demographics, Farming, Productivity, Markets

May 22, 2012 by Jawoo Koo - 0 comments

FourSquare 4 Farming?

While we were brainstorming “big ideas” at a recent working retreat, we stumbled upon the idea of promoting FourSquare as a tool to monitor smallholder farmers’ crop management practices.

Tags: Agricultural Statistics, Communication, Farming Systems, Social Media, Production, Farming

May 14, 2012 by Cindy Cox - 0 comments

Esri features HarvestChoice (Again!) in FARMD Article

Fueled by a commitment to help society, agriculture is on Esri's mind. In fact, the World Bank asked them to write about it for FARMD: The Forum for Agricultural Risk Management in Development. And what did Esri –The global leader in Geographic Information System (GIS) software and geodatabase management applications – write about? HarvestChoice!

Tags: Africa, Esri, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), HarvestChoice, Markets, Risk, Sub-Saharan Africa, Targeting/Priority Setting, Market Access, Risk, Markets, Policy

Apr 17, 2012 by Jeff Horwich - 0 comments

Risk: What It Means to Us, and Why It Matters (Video)

Risk: we all know what that means, right? But why is it such a critical part of our HarvestChoice portfolio, what does it mean when you look through the lens of farming in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Tags: Africa, Agricultural Pests, Agroecology, Climate, Communication, Crop Yields, Pest Management, Rainfall, Risk, Sub-Saharan Africa, United States, Videos, Weather, Weather and Climate, Risk, Pests and Diseases, Production, Farming, Productivity, Policy

Apr 3, 2012 by Cindy Cox - 0 comments

Esri Website Features HarvestChoice MAPPR Interface

Whether you work directly with spatial data or simply reap the benefits by tapping into mapped data products, you’ve probably heard of Esri.

Tags: Esri, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), HarvestChoice, Infrastructure and Transportation, Mapping, MAPPR, Market Access, Time of Travel, Market Access, Markets

Feb 21, 2012 by Jeff Horwich - 0 comments

CSIRO and HarvestChoice

CSIRO and HarvestChoice: Our Partnership to Take on Global Hunger

Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and HarvestChoice are now working together to apply innovative, “bio-economic” approaches to improve the food security of poor people in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Together, our organizations will merge biological, environmental and economic tools to track global food pests and better target strategic investments to improve global food security. 

Tags: Africa, Agroecology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Communication, Crop Diseases, HarvestChoice, Models, Pest Management, Rusts, Stem Rust, Sub-Saharan Africa, Targeting/Priority Setting, UG99, Videos, Risk, Land Cover , Pests and Diseases, Production, Farming, Policy

Jan 17, 2012 by Carlo Azzarri - 0 comments

Deriving Sub-National Population Estimates for Sub-Saharan Africa

In previous releases of HarvestChoice 5-arc minute population (up to SChEF r12.03) we relied exclusively on population maps from CIESIN Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, version 1 (GRUMPv1 at 30-arc second) combined to more recent national estimates from WDI.

Tags: Africa, Census, Gender, Household Surveys, Population, Population, Sub-Saharan Africa, Demographics

Jan 17, 2012 by Carlo Azzarri - 0 comments

Deriving Sub-national Poverty Estimates for Sub-Saharan Africa

HarvestChoice in collaboration with the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) produced a new series of sub-national poverty maps for sub-Saharan Africa ...

Tags: Africa, Household Surveys, Households, Poverty, Purchasing Power, Purchasing Power Parity (PPP), Sub-Saharan Africa, Income and Poverty, Demographics

Feb 21, 2011 by Lieven Claessens - 0 comments

Sweet potato harvest in Uganda

So You Think You Know Sweet Potato?

Despite a common (trust us, it's not just you) misconception, sweet potato (Ipomoea batas L. Lam) is not at all related to potato (Solanum tuberosum), nor to the true yam (Dioscorea batatas). In fact, they are all quite different. Sweet potato is a root crop, and potato and yams are tuber crops. Even researchers sometimes get confused that their publications mistakenly relate the crop species and data.

Tags: Africa, Crops, Roots & Tubers, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sweet Potato / Yam, Production, Farming

Feb 16, 2011 by Jawoo Koo - 0 comments

Question

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

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.

Tags: Agricultural Production, Agricultural Statistics, FAOSTAT, HappyStat (Harvest Area -Production-Value of Production and Yield Statistics), Farming

Jan 30, 2011 by Chris Legg - 0 comments

Drying cassava

Some Thoughts on Cassava in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cassava is one of the most important staple crops in sub-Saharan Africa, yet it stands out from other crops in many ways. In fact, cassava has been even imposing challenges for us to analyze its production data and modeling growth and productivity. This post briefly explains why.

Tags: Africa, Cassava, Commercialization, Crops, Roots & Tubers, Sub-Saharan Africa, Production, Farming
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