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 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Median travel time to human settlement of 50,000 or greater population (aggregation type: AVG) . Inland white colored areas indicate waterbodies for which no travel time or route was available at the time of creation.
Other Links:
Average Travel Time to Nearest Town over 100K (hours) Data: http://harvestchoice.org/data/average-travel-time-nearest-town-over-100k-hours-2000
Average Travel Time to Nearest Town over 250K (hours) Data: http://harvestchoice.org/data/average-travel-time-nearest-town-over-250k-hours-2000
Average Travel Time to Nearest Town over 500K (hours) Data: http://harvestchoice.org/data/average-travel-time-nearest-town-over-250k-hours-2000
Data available for download in CSV format. Spatial data layer may be explored using MAPPR and downloaded in geoTIFF and ASCII raster formats.