The raster dataset represents top location score areas suitable for cotton storage, filtered by exclusive criteria: access to finance, distance to major roads, access to IT (mobile broadband connection) and electricity.
Access to finance and roads are defined using a linear distance threshold:
• Banks - 10km buffer radius.
• Major roads - 2km buffer radius.
Access to IT and electricity is characterized by applying the mobile broadband coverage map and Atlas AI Electrification map.
The location score is achieved by processing sub-model outputs characterizing logistical factors for crop warehouse siting: Supply, demand, Infrastructure/accessibility. The location score from 0 to 100 is then obtained through a simple arithmetic weighted sum of the normalized/scaled grids.
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: 2022-12-23
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.
- Altas AI - Asset Wealth Index 2020.
https://docs.atlasai.co/economic%20well-being/asset_wealth/
- Altas AI - Electrification. https://docs.atlasai.co/infrastructure/electrification/
- 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
Resource constraints:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC- SA 3.0 IGO)
Online resources:
Zipped TIF raster file for Crop Storage Final Location: Cotton (Togo - ~ 500 m