Community suitability of Cascades, Burkina Faso
Marginally suitable confidence B · live score 41
66
best land · p90
33%
good land
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one block
How each domain holds up
Governance, safety & tenure 38
Society, freedom & health 25
Land & water 92
Climate, growing & hazards 38
Autonomy & access 59
Where it pushes back
Food & forage diversityHealthcare qualityDisease / vector burden
Within Cascades — 2 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Leraba
strongest Land & water (91) ·
weakest Society, freedom & health (25)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 43
Comoe
strongest Land & water (92) ·
weakest Society, freedom & health (25)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 41
Reading the land, criterion by criterion
Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
Governance & corruptioncountry A World Bank WGI + Transparency CPI
Healthcare qualitycountry B WHO GHO
Disease / vector burden A Malaria Atlas + dengue Index P
Soil quality A SoilGrids (ISRIC)
Water availability & quality A WRI Aqueduct + AQUASTAT
Terrain & buildability A SRTM / NASADEM
Land cover & degradation A ESA WorldCover + Global Forest Watch
Biodiversity & alignment B Biodiversity Intactness Index
Climate & natural hazards A ThinkHazard + NASA FIRMS + USGS
Growing conditions A CHELSA / FAO GAEZ
Food & forage diversity B FAO GAEZ crop suitability + GLW
Coastal risk B Climate Central CoastalDEM
Energy potential A Global Solar Atlas + Global Wind Atlas
Natural building materials B SoilGrids clay + forest + geology
Environmental quality A SEDAC PM2.5 + VIIRS night-lights
Connectivity A Ookla + ITU (+ Starlink)
Accessibility A Malaria Atlas friction surface
Remoteness / surroundings A GPWv4 population density
Contamination legacy C Maus mining polygons + WRI power plants
Phase-1 desk screening
These are desk numbers from open data. Soil tests, water rights and the welcome of actual neighbours all wait for a visit — we'd rather say so than pretend.
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