Community suitability of Volta, Ghana
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 75
79
best land · p90
83%
good land
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one block
How each domain holds up
Society, freedom & health 95
Land & water 83
Climate, growing & hazards 60
Autonomy & access 77
Where it pushes back
Growing conditionsFood & forage diversityLand cover & degradation
Within Volta — 25 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Jasikan
strongest Autonomy & access (96) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (69)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 85
Kadjebi
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (70)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Highly suitable 85
Adaklu
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (59)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 81
Central Tongu
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (64)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 81
Agotime Ziope
strongest Society, freedom & health (95) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (58)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 80
Akatsi South
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 80
Hohoe Municipal
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 80
South Tongu
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 80
Ketu North
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 79
Akatsi North
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 79
Afadzato South
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 79
Ho West
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 78
North Tongu
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 78
Ho Municipal
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 77
Kpando Municipal
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 76
Nkwanta South
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 75
Nkwanta North
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 75
Biakoye
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 75
South Dayi
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 74
Krachi West
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 73
North Dayi
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 73
Keta Municipal
pushes back: Land cover & degradation
Moderately suitable 70
Krachi Nchumuru
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 68
Krachi East
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 65
Ketu South
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 61
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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