Apr 22, 2013 by Cindy Cox - 0 comments

D8 Open Data for Agriculture: G8 Side Event at IFPRI

Open Data is a hot topic in agricultural development–so hot that G8 leaders are holding an International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture on April 29 and 30. The following day, May 1, IFPRI will share its own wealth of Open Data at "D8".

Tags: Agricultural Development, Agricultural Statistics, Targeting/Priority Setting, Research Policy

Apr 22, 2013 by Cindy Cox - 0 comments

D8 Open Data for Agriculture: G8 Side Event at IFPRI

Open Data is a hot topic in agricultural development–so hot that G8 leaders are holding an International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture on April 29 and 30. The following day, May 1, IFPRI will share its own wealth of Open Data at "D8".

Tags: Agricultural Development, Agricultural Statistics, Targeting/Priority Setting, Research Policy

Feb 13, 2013 by Cindy Cox - 0 comments

Brookings Institution Uses HarvestChoice’s Sub-National Poverty Data to Critique World Bank

Does the World Bank help the poorest of the poor? One of Washington’s oldest think tanks uses our sub-national poverty data to find out.

Tags: Economic Assistance, HarvestChoice, Mapping, Poverty, Targeting/Priority Setting, World Bank, Income and Poverty, Research Policy

Jun 25, 2012 by Cindy Cox - 0 comments

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.

Tags: Agricultural Productivity, Crop Distribution, Crop Models, Crop Yields, Models, Spatial Analysis, Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM), Yield Analysis, Productivity

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

Jun 4, 2012 by Cindy Cox - 0 comments

HarvestChoice Retreat, 2012

A recent HarvestChoice team retreat hardly fits Webster's idea of "an act or process of withdrawing especially from what is difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable".

Tags: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, HarvestChoice, Targeting/Priority Setting, Special Topics

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, Special Topics

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
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