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Glamming up Data for Smallholder Resilience in the Horn of Africa
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Five Comparable Country Datasets for Africa RISING - Now Available

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Research Highlights

Measuring the Global Occurrence and Probabilistic Consequences of Wheat Stem Rust

This technical note describes the methods and data sources used to generate the results reported in: Pardey et al. (2013).

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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 Datasets and ICTforAg Programs

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

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 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.

Ghana Agricultural Snapshot 2005/6

The purpose of this series of country briefs is to provide a comprehensive and standardized view of agricultural characteristics integrat- ed with socio-economic variables across countries.

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.

Uganda Agricultural Snapshot 2009/10

The purpose of this series of country briefs is to provide a comprehensive and standardized view of agricultural characteristics integrat- ed with socioeconomic variables across countries.

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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.

Soil Organic Carbon Content (depth 15-30cm)

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

Data Releases

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Features

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MAPPR provides easy access to over 750 layers of high-resolution spatial data for sub-Saharan Africa. Designed for policy makers and investors as well as researchers in agricultural development. Users control the where and what so click to get MAPPRing!

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