Community suitability of Ashanti, Ghana
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 77
78
best land · p90
96%
good land
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one block
How each domain holds up
Society, freedom & health 95
Land & water 81
Climate, growing & hazards 66
Autonomy & access 76
Where it pushes back
Growing conditionsFood & forage diversityLand cover & degradation
Within Ashanti — 30 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Offinso Municipal
strongest Autonomy & access (100) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (69)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 87
Sekyere East
strongest Autonomy & access (100) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (68)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 86
Adansi North
strongest Autonomy & access (97) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (67)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 84
Amansie Central
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (69)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 83
Afigya Sekyere
strongest Autonomy & access (100) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (67)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Highly suitable 83
Offinso North
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 83
Asante Akim Central Municipal
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Highly suitable 83
Ahafo Ano South
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 83
Adansi South
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 82
Sekyere Afram Plains
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 82
Asante Akim South
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 82
Atwima Mponua
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 81
Bosome Freho
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 81
Amansie West
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 81
Ahafo Ano North
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 81
Mampong Municipal
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 80
Asante Akim North
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 79
Ejura Sekye Dumase
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 79
Bekwai Municipal
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 77
Afigya Kwabre
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 77
Atwima Nwabiagya
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 76
Ejisu Juaben
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 76
Sekyere Central
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 75
Bosomtwe /Atwima / Kwanwoma
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 75
Atwima Kwanwoma
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 70
Sekyere Afram Plains North
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 64
Obuasi Municipal
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 63
Kwabre
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 62
Asokore Mampong Municipal
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 23
Kma
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 23
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
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
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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