The raster dataset consists of a 500 m score grid for the crop storage location, produced under the scope of FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis for value chain infrastructure location.
The location score is achieved by processing sub-model outputs that characterize considered factors for crop warehouse location:
• Supply: Bananas.
• Demand: Human population density, Major cities population (national and bordering countries).
• Infrastructure/accessibility: main transportation infrastructure.
• Socio-economic/poverty: Figueroa, Marsicovetere & Peñate (2020).
It consists of an arithmetic weighted sum of normalized grids (0 to 100):
("Crop Production" * 0.4) + ("Human Population Density" * 0.2) + (”Poverty” * 0.1) + (“Major Cities Accessibility” * 0.1) + (“Regional Cities Accessibility” * 0.1) + (“Port Accessibility” * 0.1).
Data publication: 2022-11-24
Contact points:
Metadata Contact: FAO-Data
Resource Contact: Justeen De Ocampo
Data lineage:
Major data sources, FAO GIS platform Hand-in-Hand and OpenStreetMap (open data) including the following datasets:
- Human Population Density 2020 – WorldPop2020 - Estimated total number of people per grid-cell 1km. https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/iso/304c21fb-0f5a-44ad-9948-2af6a7144fb5
- Mapspam Production – IFPRI's Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM) estimates of crop distribution within disaggregated units. https://data.apps.fao.org/map/catalog/srv/eng/catalog.search;jsessionid=4AA4D377D0F90E3328ACBDB5C21BFFC6?node=srv#/metadata/0c6be5d1-3a73-4516-953b-dbe2b511d6b3
- OpenStreetMap.
- Poverty – Study by Figueroa, W., Marsicovetere, P., & Peñate, M. (2020) based on the results of the XII National Population Census and VII Housing Census of 2018.
Resource constraints:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC- SA 3.0 IGO)
Online resources:
Zipped raster TIF file for Crop Storage Location Score: Bananas (Guatemala - ~ 500m)
