Short Name
HarvestChoice First-level Administrative Boundaries in Africa (GADM)
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.
This dataset includes first-level administrative boundaries in Africa. Data are obtained from the Database of Global Administrative Areas (GADM) 2008 (aggregation type: NONE).
Source / Citation
Database of Global Administrative Areas (GADM)
First released on
Last version on
Format
CSV
Location
http://harvestchoice.org/data/first-level-administrative-boundaries-gadm
Use Policy
Free to use, modify and distribute with due credits and citation.
Download information
Data are available for download in CSV format. Spatial data layer may be explored using MAPPR and downloaded in geoTIFF and ASCII raster formats.