Spatial information – including where different populations live and where natural resources are located – is essential for sound development planning and decision-making. A new website launched today, Virtual Kenya, opens up a wealth of maps and spatial data about the country for citizens and students to use.
This report informs investors about the market potential of the clean
energy industry serving India’s rural Base of the Pyramid (BoP) market, by looking at its opportunities, challenges, and potential paths to growth.
Norbert Henninger, Florence Landsberg, with the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Uganda, Uganda Bureau of Statistics, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the International Livestock Research Institute
October, 2010
This report uses mapping data to examine the
spatial relationships between poverty, livestock production
systems, the location of livestock services, in order to ensure that government investments in the livestock
sector benefit smallholders and high-poverty locations.
A milk surplus and deficit map can be compared with
maps showing poverty rates and poverty densities in order
to plan more pro-poor dairy interventions.
A milk surplus and deficit map can be compared with
maps showing poverty rates and poverty densities in order
to plan more pro-poor dairy interventions.
This map compares potential local milk supply and demand
and shows clear patterns of net milk surplus and deficit.
The map comes from an analysis using geographic information
system (GIS) data coup
