Community suitability of Northern, Ghana
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 70
70
best land · p90
72%
good land
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one block
How each domain holds up
Society, freedom & health 95
Land & water 93
Climate, growing & hazards 43
Autonomy & access 66
Where it pushes back
Food & forage diversityGrowing conditionsAccessibility
Within Northern — 26 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Nanumba South
strongest Autonomy & access (99) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (50)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 78
Mion
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (44)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 76
Bunkpurugu Yonyo
strongest Land & water (97) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (41)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 75
Nanumba North
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (47)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 75
Yendi Municipal
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (45)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 75
Savelugu Nanton
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 75
Gushiegu
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 74
Kpandai
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 73
Zabzugu
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 73
Karaga
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 72
Tatale
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 72
Mamprusi East
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 71
Saboba
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 71
West Mamprusi
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 71
Chereponi
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 70
Tolon
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 70
Tamale North Sub Metro
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 70
Sawla/Tuna/Kalba
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 69
Bole
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 67
Gonja Central
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 66
East Gonja
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 66
Kumbumgu
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 66
West Gonja
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 63
Sagnerigu
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 60
North Gonja
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 55
excluded excl
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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