Crop storage location score and top locations, Philippines

The raster dataset consists of a 500 m score grid for the crop storage location, produced under the scope of FAO’s Hand-in-Hand Initiative, Geographical Information Systems - Multicriteria Decision Analysis for value chain infrastructure location. This dataset also includes top location score areas suitable for rice storage, filtered by exclusive criteria: access to finance, distance to major roads, access to IT (mobile broadband connection).

Access to finance and roads is defined using a linear distance threshold:

• Banks - 5km buffer radius
• Major roads - 2km buffer radius
• Access to IT

Access to IT is characterized by applying the mobile broadband coverage map.

The location score is achieved by processing sub-model outputs that characterize logistical factors for selected crop warehouse locations:

• Supply: Rice.
• Demand: Human population density, Major cities population.
• Infrastructure/accessibility: main transportation infrastructure.

The location score from 0 to 100 is then obtained through a simple arithmetic weighted sum of the normalized/scaled grids. It consists of an arithmetic weighted sum of normalized grids (0 to 100): ("Crop Production" * 0.4) + ("Human Population Density" * 0.2) + (“Major Cities Accessibility” * 0.2) + (“Accessibility to Major Ports” * 0.1) + (”Poverty” * 0.1).