Dairy Processing Location Score: Cattle (Madagascar - ~ 500 m)

The raster dataset consists of a 500 m score grid for dairy processing industry facilities siting, produced under the scope of FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis for value chain infrastructure location.

The analysis is based on cattle production potential using proximity to cities and cattle density.

The score is achieved by processing sub-model outputs that characterize production, logistical, and socio-economic factors.

1. Supply - Feed and livestock distribution.

2. Infrastructure - Transportation network (accessibility).

3. Atlas AI Asset Wealth Index.

It consists of an arithmetic weighted sum of normalized grids (0 to 100):

(”Cattle Density” * 0.4) + (“Major Cities Accessibility” * 0.4) + (”Asset Wealth” *0.2 )

Data publication: 2024-02-16

Contact points:

Resource Contact: FAO-Data

Maintainer: Justeen De Ocampo

Data lineage:

FAO GIS platform Hand-in-Hand and OpenStreetMap (open data) including the following datasets:

1. GLW Gridded Livestock of the World - Gridded Livestock of the World (GLW 3 and GLW 2). https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/iso/47457ad7-ed00-4346-81e2-85aacd0e6d91
2. OpenStreetMap.
3. Altas AI - Asset Wealth Index 2020. https://docs.atlasai.co/economic%20well-being/asset_wealth/

Resource constraints:

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC- SA 3.0 IGO)

Online resources:

Zipped raster TIF file for Dairy Processing Location Score: Cattle (Madagascar - ~ 500 m)