Benin agriculture data

Vector dataset representing top score, optimal/recommended locations, for cage farming systems in the Republic of Benin. Produced under the scope of FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multi-criteria Evaluation suitability assessment. Intensive systems are characterized by high fish densities and the use of artificial feed. Considered locations for cage systems require permanent waters with a minimum surface of 5 acres. The score is determined by processing outputs from sub-models that describe biophysical, infrastructure, and demand factors: Criteria considered: a. Market accessibility - population and asset wealth index in urban areas. b. Crop input - availability of agricultural by-products. c. Livestock input - based on the weighted animal density aggregation. The score is calculated as a simple arithmetic weighted sum of normalized or scaled grids, theoretically ranging from 0 to 100: (“Accessibility MajorUrbanAreas” X 0.50) + (“CropsInput” X 0.25) + (“LivestockInput” X 0.25) **Data creation:** 2025-04-15 **Data publication:** 2025-07-25 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [FAO-Data](mailto:fao-data@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Nelson Ribeiro](mailto:Nelson.RosasRibeiroFilho@fao.org) **Data lineage:** lineage statement Data sources, FAO Hand-in-Hand Geospatial Platform and OpenStreetMap (open data) including the following datasets a. Market Accessibility (urban areas) - OpenStreetMap and Atlas AI - Population Density (Africa, 2020) - Estimated total number of people per grid-cell 1km. (Urban areas = pop density>1500 habitants/km² AND area>25km² b. Input crops - IFPRI Global Spatially-Disaggregated Crop Production Statistics Data for 2017 (MAPSPAM c. Input livestock – GLW4 : weighted animal density aggregate d. Global Surface Water 1984-2021 (European Commission Joint Research Centre **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0) **Online resources:**