Community suitability of Sikkim, India
Marginally suitable confidence B · live score 52
80
best land · p90
57%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 53
Governance, safety & tenure 54
Society, freedom & health 75
Land & water 62
Climate, growing & hazards 80
Autonomy & access 19
Where it pushes back
AccessibilityGovernance & corruptionWater availability & quality
Within Sikkim — 4 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
East
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (91) ·
weakest Legal & sovereignty (53)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Moderately suitable 64
West Sikkim
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (88) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (49)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Marginally suitable 60
South Sikkim
strongest Climate, growing & hazards (92) ·
weakest Land & water (52)
pushes back: Water availability & quality
Marginally suitable 57
North Sikkim
strongest Society, freedom & health (75) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (11)
pushes back: Accessibility
Marginally suitable 48
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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