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What goes where? Reclassifying incoming crop names to conform to the SPAM model

Picture it. You now work at HarvestChoice processing incoming crop statistics and you come across some figures for harvested area of dolichos in Kenya. Having never heard of dolichos, you turn to Google where you discover, easily enough, that dolichos are also known as hyacinth bean or lablab. But how will the Spatial Production Allocation [...]

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Timeline: What’s Cookin’ with SPAM?

It is not always clear what is happening in SPAM world. Put bluntly, it is not always clear that anything is happening in between it’s periodic releases. Some of you may be wondering, “What are you working on all this time? Why does it take so long [...]

SPAM2000v3.0.6 Release

There has been a new release of the Spatial Production Allocation Model with updates in the countries listed below. In the notes below, you will notice one of the main corrections that was applied to each country was “fixing of 0 and -999 inconsistencies”. Wondering what that means? When we process subnational agricultural production statistics for each country [...]

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