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SPAM2000v3.0.6 Release

Posted By Susana Crespo ⋅ January 25, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

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 [...]

SPAM2000v3.0.5 New Release!

Posted By Susana Crespo ⋅ November 9, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

SPAM users, we invite you to download our latest release with the significant updates listed below. To download the latest version, please fill out the SPAM Data Download form which will provide you with a link from with you can download the latest tables. Bangladesh – complete new dataset from [1], calibrated to 2006-2007, and [...]

You Are Invited…. To our Cassava Map Viewing Party After-Party

Posted By Susana Crespo ⋅ February 3, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

To the tunes of Cumbia and Cassava chips crunching, the Harvest Choice team convened a cassava map viewing party in hopes of mining our collective knowledge for information to validate our SPAM outputs, specifically, “Area Harvested Cassava” in Sub Saharan Africa. With the presence of our visitor, the encyclopedic Chris Legg, and his expertise in [...]

SPAM Data Downloads Top 100 Since Site Launch

Posted By Susana Crespo ⋅ January 20, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Since April 2010, SPAM data downloads have topped 100, at 106. Since 5 of those are by the HarvestChoice team itself, we can now say it has been downloaded at LEAST 100 times! See by whom…

Launching MapSpaM With New Ways to Access Data

Posted By Susana Crespo ⋅ August 19, 2010 ⋅ One comment

We love sharing information and are always looking for better ways to connect you with the data easily. Our data page features many ways to access SPAM data. Please scroll through the whole page to see them all.

What does it take to prepare SPAM data?

Posted By Susana Crespo ⋅ August 18, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Why does new SPAM take so long to release? The biggest delays occur around the acquisition and “cleaning” of subnational production statistics.

How can I help?

Posted By Susana Crespo ⋅ August 16, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Your comments and feedback are highly appreciated. We also value any basic statistics data (crop area, production, yield), that you can share. Accurate statistical data at the subnational level is an important driver in generating and improving SPAM. Please browse the many ways of visualizing SPAM data and feel free to comment on its veracity. [...]