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Aug 11, 2016
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HarvestChoice Datasets and ICTforAg Programs
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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

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

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

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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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.

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.

Long-Term Climate Trends for sub-Saharan Africa

This tool visualizes the long-term (1960-2014) gridded monthly precipitation, near-surface temperature, and Palmer Drought Severity Index time series for sub-Saharan Africa summarized across districts.

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Soil Fertility

Years of weathering have leached nutrients away from many soils in the cropped areas of Africa south of the Sahara (SSA).

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.

Soil Organic Carbon Content (depth 15-30cm)

Soil organic carbon content (fine earth fraction) at 15-30cm depth.

Food Security in a World of Growing Natural Resource Scarcity: The Role of Agricultural Technologies

Authors use crop and impact models to examine which current and potential agricultural technologies offer solutions to fight hunger.

HarvestChoice Datasets and ICTforAg Programs

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

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