Mapping Food Security and Development: From Yemen Atlas to Yemen Spatial
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Mapping food security and development: From Yemen Atlas to Yemen Spatial
Perrihan Al-Riffai
International Food Policy Research Institute
IFPRI-IFAD Workshop on “Decreasing Vulnerability to Conflict in MENA through Rural Development”; Sanaa, Yemen; 9 April 2013
Yemen Food Security Atlas 2010
• desktop application developed in the context of the National Food Security Strategy (NFSS)
Arab Spatial
• online application developed with IFAD at regional level
Next steps: towards Yemen Spatial, to be developed
Outline
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The Yemen Digital Food Security Atlas (DFSA) • A source of information for policy makers and the public (on a CD)
• Contains about 200 maps on food security, trade, health, agriculture etc.
• A tool to conduct simple food security analysis
Arab Spatial: An online database and web-mapping tool with more than 150 food security and development-related indicators
Arab Spatial Development and Food Security Atlas
Arab Spatial: What is Special? Based on consistent conceptual framework of food
security
http://www.ifpri.org/sites/default/files/publications/ifpridp01166.pdf
• Online
• Dynamic over time (e.g. conflict)
• Zoom in function (e.g. Aswan High Dam)
• Download of maps and metadata (.shp & .csv)
• Others
www.arabspatial.org
Difference from Yemen Atlas
Next steps Yemen Spatial
• Based on the Yemen Atlas
• Updated data
• Additional data
Collaboration between IFPRI, IFAD, GoY and others
Launch of Yemen Spatial early 2014