The 500m 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 location score is achieved by processing sub-model outputs characterizing logistical factors for the slaughterhouse facilities siting: Demand, Supply, Infrastructure/accessibility. The top 99th percentile 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. 20km (0.18 degree) buffer radius.
• Major roads - approx. 2km (0.018 degree) buffer radius.
• Access to IT is characterized by applying the mobile broadband coverage map.
Data publication: 2021-10-18
Contact points:
Metadata 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:
1. Human Population Density 2020 – WorldPop2020 - Estimated total number of people per grid-cell 1km.
2. Mapspam Production – IFPRI's Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM) estimates of crop distribution within
disaggregated units.
3. GLW Gridded Livestock of the World - Gridded Livestock of the World (GLW 3 and GLW 2)
4. Global Livestock Production Systems v.5 2011.
5. OpenStreetMap.
6. Altas AI - Asset Wealth Index 2020
7. Mobile Broadband Coverage produced based on: Coverage Data © Collins Bartholomew and
GSMA 2021
Resource constraints:
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC- SA 3.0 IGO)
Online resources:
Zipped raster TIF file for Cameroon Slaughterhouse Final Location: Cattle (Cameroon - ~ 500m)
