The 500 m raster dataset represents selected top location score areas filtered by exclusive criteria: access to finance, distance to major roads, access to IT, and distance to urban areas. The layer was produced under the scope of FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis for value chain infrastructure location.
The score is achieved by processing sub-model outputs that characterize production, logistical, and socio-economic factors. The top score is selected/clipped using the exclusive criteria.
Access to finance, distance to roads, and urban areas are defined using a linear distance threshold:
• Banks - approx. 10km buffer radius.
• Major roads - approx. 2km buffer radius.
Access to IT is characterized by applying the mobile broadband coverage map.
Data publication: 2022-11-25
Contact points:
Resource Contact: FAO-Data
Maintainer: Justeen De Ocampo
Data lineage:
Major data sources, FAO GIS platform Hand-in-Hand and OpenStreetMap (open data) including the following datasets:
- 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
- OpenStreetMap.
- Mobile Broadband Coverage produced based on: Coverage Data © Collins Bartholomew and GSMA 2021.
https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/dataset/mobile-broadband-coverage-global-1km
- 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 Dairy Processing Final Location: Cattle (Guatemala - ~ 500 m)
