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Decomposing USDA ending stocks forecast errors

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) publishes monthly Ending Stocks projections, providing an estimate of the end-of-marketing-year inventory of a particular commodity, which effectively summarizes its supply and demand outlook.

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Multivariate random forest prediction of poverty and malnutrition prevalence

Advances in remote sensing and machine learning enable increasingly accurate, inexpensive, and timely estimation of poverty and malnutrition indicators to guide development and humanitarian agencies’ programming.

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From bad to worse: Poverty impacts of food availability responses to weather shocks

Since Amartya Sen's famous work on Poverty and Famines, economists have understood that the impacts of food market shocks on the poor depend much more on their impacts on households’ incomes and access to food than on overall food availability, an

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Forecasting commodity prices using long-short-term memory neural networks

This paper applies a recurrent neural network (RNN) method to forecast cotton and oil prices. We show how these new tools from machine learning, particularly Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) models, complement traditional methods.

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Crop Monitoring Using Smartphone Based Near-Surface Remote Sensing: Ground Pictures of Wheat and Auxiliary Data from Northern India

This is a processed dataset of approximately 20,000 near-surface remote sensing images acquired using inexpensive smartphones within the context of a picture-based insurance (PBI) initiative of 1,685 smallholder farmers fields in northwest India.
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Open Access and Open Data at CGIAR: Challenges and solutions

CGIAR is addressing the urgent need to create a data sharing culture and enabling environment for Open Access and Open Data (OA/OD) that includes projects planning for OA/OD and allocating funds to support it, in parallel with the technical infras