How does agricultural production compare within as well as between countries? This data vis ranks the top five crops within each country in West Africa by harvested area. Within the total harvested area of those top five crops, what share of area is... Source: Home of the Spatial Production Allocation Model (MAPSPAM)
SPAM Outputs: What are the Units?
Harvested area and physical area both reported in hectares. Production is reported in tons. (Note groundnut production is measured in the shell) Yield units in SPAM are kilograms / hectare. More specifically, yields are reported for wet crops, as in th... Source: Home of the Spatial Production Allocation Model (MAPSPAM)
You Are Invited…. To our Cassava Map Viewing Party After-Party
To the tunes of Cumbia and Cassava chips crunching, the Harvest Choice team convened a cassava map viewing party in hopes of mining our collective knowledge for information to validate our SPAM outputs, specifically, "Area Harvested Cassava" in Sub Sah... Source: Home of the Spatial Production Allocation Model (MAPSPAM)
Launching MapSpaM With New Ways to Access Data
We love sharing information and are always looking for better ways to connect you with the data easily. Our data page features many ways to access SPAM data. Please scroll through the whole page to see them all. Source: Home of the Spatial Production Allocation Model (MAPSPAM)
What does it take to prepare SPAM data?
Why does new SPAM take so long to release? The biggest delays occur around the acquisition and "cleaning" of subnational production statistics. Source: Home of the Spatial Production Allocation Model (MAPSPAM)
