Crop Storage/Processing, Large-Scale Rice Production Final Location (Cameroon - ~ 500m)

The raster dataset represents top location score areas suitable for rice storage filtered by exclusive criteria: access to finance, distance to major roads and access to IT (mobile broadband connection). Access to finance and roads 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 - applying a mobile broadband coverage 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. The top 99th percentile is selected/clipped using the exclusive criteria. 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:** 2023-05-22 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [FAO-Data](mailto:fao-data@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Dariia Nesterenko](mailto:dariia.nesterenko@fao.org) **Data lineage:** lineage statement 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. OpenStreetMap. 4. Altas AI - Asset Wealth Index 2020. 5. Mobile Broadband Coverage produced based on: Coverage Data © Collins Bartholomew and GSMA 2021. **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0) **Online resources:** Download: Crop Storage Final Location: Rice Centre (Cameroon - ~ 500m)

The raster dataset consists of a 500m score grid for irrigated rice storage and processing location, achieved by processing sub-model outputs that characterize logistical factors: • Supply: Irrigated rice production. • Demand: Large cities/markets. • Infrastructure/accessibility: Main transportation infrastructure. It consists of an arithmetic weighted sum of normalized grids (0 to 100): ("Crop Production" * 0.5) + ("Major Cities Accessibility" * 0.3) + (“Asset Wealth” * 0.2) 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:** 2023-05-20 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [FAO-Data](mailto:fao-data@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Dariia Nesterenko](mailto:dariia.nesterenko@fao.org) **Data lineage:** lineage statement Major data sources, FAO GIS platform Hand-in-Hand and OpenStreetMap (open data) including the following datasets 1. Mapspam Production – IFPRI's Spatial Production Allocation Model (SPAM) estimates of crop distribution within disaggregated units. 2. OpenStreetMap. 3. Atlas AI - Asset Wealth Index 2020 **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0) **Online resources:** Download: Large-Scale Rice Production Location Score (Cameroon - ~ 500m)

The raster dataset represents top location score areas suitable for maize storage filtered by exclusive criteria: access to finance, distance to major roads and access to IT (mobile broadband connection). Access to finance and roads 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 - applying the mobile broadband coverage 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 obtained through a simple arithmetic weighted sum of the normalized/scaled grids. The top 99th percentile is selected/clipped using the exclusive criteria. 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:** 2023-05-22 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [FAO-Data](mailto:fao-data@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Dariia Nesterenko](mailto:dariia.nesterenko@fao.org) **Data lineage:** lineage statement 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. OpenStreetMap. 4. Altas AI - Asset Wealth Index 2020. 5. Mobile Broadband Coverage produced based on: Coverage Data © Collins Bartholomew and GSMA 2021. **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0) **Online resources:** Download: Crop Storage Final Location: Maize (Cameroon - ~ 500m)

The raster dataset consists of a 500m score grid for rice storage location achieved by processing sub-model outputs that characterize logistical factors for selected crop warehouse location: • Supply: Rice. • Demand: Human population density, Major cities population (national and bordering countries). • Infrastructure/accessibility: main transportation infrastructure. It consists of an arithmetic weighted sum of normalized grids (0 to 100): ("Crop Production" * 0.4) + ("Human Population Density" * 0.2) + ("Major Cities Accessibility" * 0.1) + (“Asset Wealth” * 0.1) + (”Regional Cities Accessibility” * 0.1)+("Major Ports Accessibility" * 0.1). 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:** 2023-05-22 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [FAO-Data](mailto:fao-data@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Dariia Nesterenko](mailto:dariia.nesterenko@fao.org) **Data lineage:** lineage statement 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. OpenStreetMap. 4. Altas AI - Asset Wealth Index 2020. **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0) **Online resources:** Download: Crop Storage Location Score: Rice (Cameroon - ~ 500m)

The raster dataset consists of a 500m score grid for rainfed rice small-scale storage and processing location, achieved by processing sub-model outputs that characterize logistical factors: • Supply: Rainfed Rice production. • Demand: Local markets, farm-gate sales. • Infrastructure/accessibility: Main transportation infrastructure. It consists of an arithmetic weighted sum of normalized grids (0 to 100): ("Rainfed Rice Production" * 0.4) + ("55k hab Cities Accessibility" * 0.3) + (“Asset Wealth” * 0.1) + (“Farm gate sales” * 0.2) The 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:** 2023-05-20 **Contact points:** Metadata Contact: [FAO-Data](mailto:fao-data@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Dariia Nesterenko](mailto:dariia.nesterenko@fao.org) **Data lineage:** lineage statement 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. OpenStreetMap. 4. Altas AI - Asset Wealth Index 2020. **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0) **Online resources:** Download: Small-Scale Rice Production Location Score (Cameroon - ~ 500m)

The raster dataset represents top location score areas suitable for rice storage, filtered by exclusive criteria: access to finance, and distance to major roads. Access to finance and roads is defined using a linear distance threshold: • Banks - 20km buffer radius. • Major roads - 2km buffer radius. • Access to IT is characterized by applying the mobile broadband coverage map. 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. • 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:** 2023-07-18 **Contact points:** Resource Contact: [FAO-Data](mailto:fao-data@fao.org) Resource Contact: [Dariia Nesterenko](mailto:dariia.nesterenko@fao.org) **Data lineage:** lineage statement 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 crop distribution within disaggregated units. 3. OpenStreetMap. 4. Poverty – Asset Wealth Index 2020. **Resource constraints:** This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC-BY 4.0) **Online resources:** Download: Crop Storage Final Location: Rice (Mozambique - ~ 500 m)