Why is there no maize in my backyard? While SPAM results show accurate crop patterns, the uncertainty at farm level is high. Such uncertainty is from multiple sources such as uncertainty of cropland estimation from satellite imagery, wrong census data...
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What is the plan?
What's the plan for the next version/generation of SPAM? We will continue to improve our model as more and more remote sensing data are available. On one hand, we would improve SPAM 2000 results by incorporating comments/feedbacks from users, or...
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About the name
What's ISPAM? ISPAM stands for IFPRI Spatial Production Allocaiton Model, an alternative name for SPAM. Any plan to change the name? No. While we understand the (not so good) implication of SPAM, we have not come to a better name. If you have one...
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History of SPAM
How was SPAM started? During the project of "policies on food, agriculture and the environment, indicators and priorities for Agricultural research in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC)", we need to account for spatial heterogeneity of...
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Input systems for rice
I'm doing a quick study on rice methane emissions and would like to see if the SPAM rice categories (irrigated, rainfed/high-input, rainfed/low-input) could be translated to irrigated, flooded and upland rice. How do the SPAM categories work for...
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Pipeline: August 2010
With the intention of ever refining SPAM’s quality, we are re-running the model country by country with new input data when available. Our strategy is to "Balance re-running SPAM 2000 with Building SPAM 2005."
As of August 2010, Kenya 2005...