Tag Archives: Africa

Poverty maps on HarvestChoice

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

Data on poverty levels, important for amongst others development study, yet very difficult to get. Sure, you can get global statistics from e.g., the FAO, Worldbank, here or here. But these give you highly aggregated data (mostly by country), not … Continue reading →

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Mapping Forest resource assessment 2010 data – part II

Posted on January 19, 2011 by

I am creating a series of maps based on the Global forest resources assessment 2010 (FRA). A first example is the map below with the forest and woodland cover per country as percentage of the total land area. The pie … Continue reading →

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Mapping Forest resource assessment 2010 data – part I

Posted on January 12, 2011 by

About a year ago I wrote a post about how to make a map showing deforestation rates in Africa based on the Global Forest Assessment 2005 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nation (FAO). The main purpose … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Kenya

Posted on November 12, 2010 by

I have lived in Kenya for seven years and this advert of Safaricom, a Kenyan mobile company, made me realize how much I miss it. It shows some of the beautiful and spectacular landscapes Kenya is famous for. For those … Continue reading →

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Atlas of potential vegetation of Ethiopia

Posted on October 7, 2010 by

In July this year a new vegetation map of Ethiopia was published by the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab). The atlas is based on many years of field work by the two senior … Continue reading →

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