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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    December, 2016
    Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Senegal, Ethiopia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa

    This paper illustrates how the capabilities of GIS and satellite imagery can be harnessed to explore and better understand the urban form of several large African cities (Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Kigali, Dar es Salaam, and Dakar). To allow for comparability across very diverse cities, this work looks at the above mentioned cities through the lens of several spatial indicators and relies heavily on data derived from satellite imagery.

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    Is GPS the New Gold Standard in Land Area Measurement?

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    July, 2016
    Tanzania, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Africa

    In rural societies of low- and middle-income countries, land is a major measure of wealth, a critical input in agricultural production, and a key variable for assessing agricultural performance and productivity. In the absence of cadastral information to refer to, measures of land plots have historically been taken with one of two approaches: traversing (accurate, but cumbersome), and farmers' self-report (cheap, but marred by measurement error). Recently, the advent of cheap handheld GPS devices has held promise for balancing cost and precision.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    August, 2016
    Nigeria, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Sub-Saharan Africa, Africa

    Trees on farms are often overlooked in agricultural and natural resource research and policy in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper addresses this gap using data from the Living Standards Measurement Study–Integrated Surveys on Agriculture in five countries: Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. Trees on farms are widespread. On average, one third of rural smallholders grow trees. They account for an average of 17 percent of total annual gross income for tree-growing households and 6 percent for all rural households.

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