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Research Highlights

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.

Cover Atlas of African Ag

Soil Fertility

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

Cover Atlas of African Ag

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Data Releases

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Features

Dig Deeper for Better Choices

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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