The raster dataset represents top location score areas suitable for maize storage, filtered by exclusive criteria: access to finance, distance to major roads.
Access to finance and roads are defined using a linear distance threshold:
• Banks - 20km buffer radius.
• Major roads - 2km buffer radius.
The location score is achieved by processing sub-model outputs that characterize production, logistical and socio-economic factors for warehouse/storage locations:
• Supply: Production.
• Demand: Human population density, Major cities population (national and bordering countries).
• Infrastructure/accessibility: main transportation infrastructure.
• Poverty.
It consists of an arithmetic weighted sum of normalized grids (0 to 100).
This 500m resolution raster dataset is part of FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis (GIS-MCDA) aimed at the identification of value chain infrastructure sites (optimal location).
Data publication: 2022-11-17
Contact points:
Resource Contact: FAO-Data
Resource Contact: Dariia Nesterenko
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 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 - FAO
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 Final Location: Maize (Mozambique - ~ 500 m)
