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Aug 11, 2016
Meandering Downstream: Tracking HarvestChoice Data
Jul 22, 2016
HarvestChoice Datasets and ICTforAg Programs
Jun 13, 2016
Glamming up Data for Smallholder Resilience in the Horn of Africa
May 11, 2016
Five Comparable Country Datasets for Africa RISING - Now Available

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Research Highlights

HarvestChoice Web Map services

HarvestChoice Web Map Services

HarvestChoice Web Map Services (version 1.1.1) offer Open GIS Consortium standard Web Map Service interface. Using WMS endpoints, you can allow your desktop or web GIS clients (e.g. QGIS and ArcMap, Leaflet, etc.) to access all of HarvestChoice data layers for sub-Saharan Africa without this website.

HarvestChoice Datasets and ICTforAg Programs

HarvestChoice Mappr mentioned among 9 datasets to improve your ICTforAg programs.

Maize Yield Variability (high input) (1981-2010)

Model-estimated yield variability of rainfed maize with high input for 1981-2010 (30-year period). Values are for 5 arc-minute grid cells.

Potential Impact of Investments in Drought Tolerant Maize in Africa

Study evaluates the potential impacts of 'Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa' project run by CIMMYT and IITA in 13 sub-Saharan African countries.

Moving Matters: The Effect of Location on Crop Production

Our new spatial output indexes show that 16 to 21 percent of the increase in U.S. corn output over the 128 years beginning in 1879 was attributable to spatial movement in production.

Travel time to nearest town over 50K (mean, hours, 2000)

Median travel time to human settlement of 50,000 or greater population.

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Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development: Revealing Agriculture's Place in Africa

The Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development presents a broad range of geospatial data that relate to strategic agriculture policy, investment, and planning issues.

Right-Sizing Stem-Rust Research

We estimate global wheat losses over the past 50 years absent investments in research to limit impacts of stem rust and discuss how this can inform decisions about “right-sizing” research investments.

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A Bounds Analysis of World Food Futures: Global Agriculture Through to 2050

The notion that global agricultural output needs to double by 2050 is oft repeated.

Geospatial Targeting - SAGCOT Corridor in Tanzania

This tool helps users to identify specific sites within the SAGCOT (Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania) area where new irrigation investments should target at 10 km spatial resolution.

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