Community suitability of Greater Accra, Ghana
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 74
82
best land · p90
77%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Society, freedom & health 95
Land & water 87
Climate, growing & hazards 64
Autonomy & access 80
Where it pushes back
Growing conditionsFood & forage diversityLand cover & degradation
Within Greater Accra — 16 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Shai Osu Doku
strongest Autonomy & access (99) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (66)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 83
Ada West
strongest Autonomy & access (100) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (60)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 77
Ningo Prampram
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (61)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 76
Ada East
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (55)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 75
Ga South
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (50)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 68
Ga West
pushes back: Accessibility
Moderately suitable 62
Kpone Katamanso
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 58
La Nkwantanang Madina
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Marginally suitable 53
Ga Central Municipal
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 43
Ga East
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 37
Adenta
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 36
Ashaiman
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 23
Accra Metropolis
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 22
Tema Metropolis
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 22
La Dade Kotopon
pushes back: Accessibility
Currently not suitable 21
Ledzokuku / Krowor
pushes back: Accessibility
Not suitable 19
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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