HarvestChoice keeps catalogs of both raster and vector maps of sub-Saharan Africa (downloadable in either ASCII or ESRI Shapefile formats) along with their associated datasets. We also provide access to over 400 articles, survey and census reports on agriculture-related topics in support of investment targeting and prioritization decisions.

Region Dashboard

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Tool Type: 
Interactive data query
Lowest Geographic Unit: 
level-2 administrative unit
Publisher: 
HarvestChoice/International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

HarvestChoice region dashboard provides a one-page view of national time-series and sub-national statistics for 52 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

DREAM Simulation Results

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Tool Type: 
StatPlanet
Lowest Geographic Unit: 
Country
Years Covered: 
2007
Publisher: 
HarvestChoice/International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

HarvestChoice has developed data templates and workflows to automatically link output files from DREAM simulations into the StatPlanet visualizer to allow users to explore the full set of DREAM results...

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Priorities for Realizing the Potential to Increase Agricultural Productivity and Growth in Western and Central Africa

Authored by:
Nin-Pratt, Alejandro; Johnson, Michael; Magalhaes, Eduardo; Diao, Xinshen; You, Liangzhi; Chamberlin, Jordan
Publisher:
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), August, 2009, IFPRI Discussion Paper 00876, 76 pages.
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We identify a set of development priorities for agriculture that cut across West Africa, at both the country and the regional level, to achieve economy-wide growth goals in the region.

Regional Groupings

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Tool Type: 
Interactive map query
Lowest Geographic Unit: 
Country
Years Covered: 
2011
Publisher: 
HarvestChoice/International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Many of HarvestChoice's spatial analyses are done using raster datasets at various spatial resolutions (e.g., 1 km, 10 km, or 50 km grids).

DREAM (Dynamic Research Evaluation for Management 3.1)

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Tool Type: 
Model
Lowest Geographic Unit: 
region and socio-economic group
Years Covered: 
1995 - 2007
Publisher: 
HarvestChoice/International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
DREAM is a partial equilibrium, single commodity, multi-region, economic surplus model for assessing the potential economic benefits of technology diffusion and adoption (including technology spillover).
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