Community suitability of Eastern, Ghana
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 76
77
best land · p90
85%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Society, freedom & health 95
Land & water 78
Climate, growing & hazards 64
Autonomy & access 73
Where it pushes back
Growing conditionsFood & forage diversityLand cover & degradation
Within Eastern — 26 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Kwahu East
strongest Autonomy & access (96) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (61)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 82
Birim South
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (68)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 82
Birim North
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (68)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 82
Kwahu South
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (66)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 81
Atiwa
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (72)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 81
Akyem Mansa
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 81
Denkyembour
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 81
Kwahu West
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 80
Kwaebibirem
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 80
Ayensuano
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 80
West Akim
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 80
Yilo Krobo
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 79
Fanteakwa
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 79
Lower Manya
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 78
East Akim
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 77
Birim Municipal
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 77
Upper Manya
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 77
Upper West Akim
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 76
Akwapem North
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 76
Suhum Municipal
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 75
Akwapem South
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 73
Asuogyaman
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 73
New Juaben Municipal
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 67
Kwahu Afram Plains South
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 64
Nsawam Adoagyiri
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 63
Kwahu Afram Plains North
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 55
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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