Community suitability of Bihar, India
Moderately suitable confidence B · live score 62
82
best land · p90
97%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 53
Governance, safety & tenure 54
Society, freedom & health 75
Land & water 92
Climate, growing & hazards 65
Autonomy & access 64
Where it pushes back
Growing conditionsFood & forage diversityGovernance & corruption
Within Bihar — 37 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Bhabua
strongest Land & water (95) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (53)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 67
Jamui
strongest Land & water (95) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (53)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 66
Pashchim Champaran
strongest Autonomy & access (91) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (53)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 66
Munger
strongest Land & water (93) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (53)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 65
Nawada
strongest Land & water (94) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (53)
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 65
Banka
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 64
Lakhisarai
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 64
Rohtas
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 63
Aurangabad
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 63
Gaya
pushes back: Growing conditions
Moderately suitable 63
Khagaria
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 63
Araria
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 63
Madhepura
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 62
Purnia
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 62
Buxar
pushes back: Growing conditions
Marginally suitable 61
Katihar
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Moderately suitable 61
Madhubani
pushes back: Growing conditions
Marginally suitable 61
Purba Champaran
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 61
Bhagalpur
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 60
Saharsa
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 60
Sitamarhi
pushes back: Growing conditions
Marginally suitable 60
Bhojpur
pushes back: Growing conditions
Marginally suitable 60
Sheikhpura
pushes back: Growing conditions
Marginally suitable 60
Darbhanga
pushes back: Growing conditions
Marginally suitable 60
Samastipur
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 60
Kishanganj
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Marginally suitable 60
Supaul
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 59
Gopalganj
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 59
Jehanabad
pushes back: Growing conditions
Marginally suitable 59
Nalanda
pushes back: Growing conditions
Marginally suitable 59
Begusarai
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 58
Saran
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 58
Sheohar
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 57
Patna
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 57
Siwan
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 57
Vaishali
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 57
Muzaffarpur
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 56
Reading the land, criterion by criterion
Each signal names the open dataset behind it and how measured it is.
Legal entity & land frameworkcountry B OECD FDI RRI + manual
Seed & agricultural autonomycountry C UPOV membership proxy
Governance & corruptioncountry A World Bank WGI + Transparency CPI
Land tenure securitycountry A IPRI (de jure) + Prindex (de facto)
Business & economic viabilitycountry A World Bank B-READY, Heritage, Fraser
Cost of living, labour & landcountry A World Bank PPP, ILOSTAT
Personal freedomcountry A Cato/Fraser Human Freedom Index
Healthcare qualitycountry B WHO GHO
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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