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HarvestChoice Datasets and ICTforAg Programs
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Glamming up Data for Smallholder Resilience in the Horn of Africa
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Research Highlights

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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.

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.

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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).

HarvestChoice Datasets and ICTforAg Programs

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

Data Releases

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