Community suitability of Upper West, Ghana
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 66
63
best land · p90
18%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Society, freedom & health 95
Land & water 95
Climate, growing & hazards 32
Autonomy & access 68
Where it pushes back
Food & forage diversityGrowing conditionsAccessibility
Within Upper West — 11 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Wa West
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (40)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 73
Lawra
strongest Land & water (96) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (36)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 73
Wa Municipal
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (40)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 71
Nandom
strongest Land & water (96) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (35)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 71
Jirapa
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (33)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 70
Nadowli-Kaleo
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 70
Wa East
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 66
Sissala West
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 62
Sissala East
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 59
excluded excl
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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