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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.

Rethinking Yield Gaps

We clarify the terminology surrounding yield gaps, show that closing yield gaps is not necessarily economic, and conclude that food security will be better served by policies that directly enhance the productive capacity of agriculture to supply affordable food efficiently and sustainably.

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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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Tanzania Agricultural Snapshot 2007/08

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.

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.

Data Releases

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