Community suitability of Central, Ghana
Highly suitable confidence B · live score 83
79
best land · p90
95%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Society, freedom & health 95
Land & water 80
Climate, growing & hazards 67
Autonomy & access 96
Where it pushes back
Growing conditionsFood & forage diversityLand cover & degradation
Within Central — 20 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Assin South
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (69)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 85
Twifo Lower Denkyira
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (67)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 84
Asikuma / Odoben / Brakwa
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (63)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 83
Assin North
strongest Autonomy & access (96) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (63)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 82
Upper Denkyira East
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (71)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 80
Twifo Ati-Morkwa
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 80
Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 80
Abura / Asebu / Kwamankese
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 79
Agona West
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 78
Agona East
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 78
Upper Denkyira West
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 78
Komenda Edna Eguafo / Abirem
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 78
Gomoa West
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 77
Awutu Senya West
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 77
Gomoa East
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 71
Ekumfi
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 71
Mfantsiman
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 70
Awutu Senya East Municipal
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 64
Effutu
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 63
Cape Coast Metro
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 62
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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