Community suitability of Brakna, Mauritania
Currently not suitable confidence B · live score 27
71
best land · p90
40%
good land
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one block
How each domain holds up
Legal & sovereignty 43
Governance, safety & tenure 41
Economy & cost 98
Society, freedom & health 64
Land & water 70
Climate, growing & hazards 23
Autonomy & access 1
Where it pushes back
Food & forage diversityAccessibilityGrowing conditions
Within Brakna — 5 sub-regions
Estimated finer-grained reads from the same open data. Phase-1, not yet verified.
Bababe
strongest Economy & cost (98) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (19)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Marginally suitable 42
Aleg
strongest Economy & cost (98) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (1)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Currently not suitable 27
Maghta Lahjar
strongest Economy & cost (98) ·
weakest Autonomy & access (1)
pushes back: Food & forage diversity
Currently not suitable 26
excluded excl
excluded excl
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
Education & schooling freedomcountry B HSLDA + UNESCO UIS
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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