Community suitability of Thi-Qar, Iraq
Marginally suitable confidence B · live score 44
63
best land · p90
13%
good land
—
one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 39
Governance, safety & tenure 31
Economy & cost 29
Society, freedom & health 77
Land & water 64
Climate, growing & hazards 24
Autonomy & access 83
Where it pushes back
Food & forage diversityGovernance & corruptionMonetary & capital sovereignty
Within Thi-Qar — 5 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Al-Rifa'i
strongest Autonomy & access (91) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (25)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 45
Suq Al-Shoyokh
strongest Autonomy & access (96) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (24)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 45
Al-Shatra
strongest Autonomy & access (82) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (29)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 45
Nassriya
strongest Autonomy & access (82) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (24)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 44
Al-Chibayish
strongest Society, freedom & health (77) ·
weakest Climate, growing & hazards (28)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 44
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
Monetary & capital sovereigntycountry A IMF/World Bank, Chinn-Ito
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
Connectivity A Ookla + ITU (+ Starlink)
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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