Purpose: clean, interpolate and export maize prices for markets of southern Africa as three variables for analysis alongside climate variables to generate: 1) post-harvest price change 2) post-harvest average 3) post-harvest coefficient of variation
Data Involved:
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Monthly market level maize prices from WFP
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Monthly exchange rate data from BIS.org
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Monthly consumer price index data from BLS.gov
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Will be merged with TerraClimate precip & temp metrics, geographical distance measures using NASA gROADS and proximal land-use data
Status: Analysis complete, manuscript in preparation for submission to Global Environmental Change
Code Last Updated: May 2022
