Jul 16, 2012 by Susana Crespo - 0 comments

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.

Tags: Banana / Plantain, Barley, Bean, Cassava, Cereals, Coffee, Cotton, Crop Models, Crops, Crops, FAOSTAT, Groundnut, International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities (IMPACT), Models, Spatial Allocation, Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM), Sugar Cane, Fibers, Maize, Potato, Soybean, Fruits, Millet, Sweet Potato / Yam, Oil-bearing Crops, Rice, Production, Pulses, Sorghum, Roots & Tubers, Wheat, Stimulant Crops, Sugar Crops & Sweeteners, Farming

Jul 16, 2012 by Susana Crespo - 0 comments

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.

Tags: Crop Models, Crops, FAOSTAT, International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities (IMPACT), Models, Spatial Allocation, Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM), Production, Farming

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

Sep 17, 2010 by Jawoo Koo - 0 comments

Layered information on a grid cell

DataTile v0.1

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.

Tags: Africa, Agroecology, Climate, Crop Area, Infrastructure and Transportation, Livestock Production, Market Access, Markets, Models, Population, Population, Rainfall, Spatial Analysis, Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM), Spatial Resolution, Sub-Saharan Africa, Time of Travel, Weather, Weather and Climate, Market Access, Land Cover , Production, Demographics, Farming, Markets

Aug 16, 2010 by Joe (Zhe) Guo - 0 comments

AgMarketFinder v2.0

AgMarketFinder v2.0

HarvestChoice AgMarketFinder is a web-based geoprocessing GIS application that provides a quick-and-easy access to the spatially-explicit agricultural statistics databases, including crop, livestock, and rural/urban human population. No GIS skill necessary!

Tags: Crop Area, Crop Production, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Infrastructure and Transportation, Livestock Production, Market Access, Markets, Population, Population, Time of Travel, Market Access, Production, Demographics, Farming, Markets
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