HarvestChoice is a research initiative which generates information to help guide strategic investments in agriculture aimed at improving the well‐being of poor people in Sub-Saharan Africa through more productive and profitable farming. The initiative is coordinated by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the University of Minnesota and is supported by a grant to IFPRI by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
MAPPR provides easy access to over 100 layers of spatially-explicit, agricultural-related data for Sub-Saharan Africa. Use MAPPR to “drill through” and extract information from fine-resolution data layers (each layer holds ~300,000 10km x 10km grid cells covering the Sub-Saharan African region). By selecting demographic, market access, and crop production layers, for example, users can tabulate population, travel time to markets, and crop area attributes at any user-defined location, customized area, or geographical domain. MAPPR maps, tabulates, and charts a broad range of sub-national agricultural development indicators. By design, MAPPR targets the needs of investors, policymakers, and program managers, as well as the analysts and technical specialists who support them.
To start… open MAPPR by clicking on the icon in the upper right corner of your screen. Once inside MAPPR, begin your data quest by clicking on the tab in the upper left corner to: