Country Context
Administrative/Reporting Units
Most of the results, except for 2020, are linked to the Ad1 level. In 2020, Ad1 and Ad2 results are available, therefore, a potential over-lapping of data. Will there be other years coming with AD2 results?
The spatial admin evolution used here includes a 1990, 2013, and 2016 set of FNIDs/boundaries. Of these, only the 1990 and 2013 annual Spatial sets are available from the EWT. Many changes were made in 2016, so I have constructed a 2016 version here. I found almost no evidence of changes in 2021, for which the EWT does have a set of shape files/FNIDs. There are a number of FNIDs/boundaries in that set which I can not confirm as AD2 units (eg. the Lacs).
Conclusions: A new spatial dataset for 2016 is needed, and its FNIDS and changes in relationships are shown in the “Admin” tab. In my opinion, a 2021 spatial set is not needed.
A spreadsheet tab named “EWT_Changes” shows changes that should be carried out, and/or considered for the existing 1990 and 2013 spatial shapefiles and FNIDs and for a 2016 version. The 1990 and 2013 changes are fairly minor naming changes and one deletion.
One feature of the 2013 Spatial data set that can cause confusion is that multiple Ad2 names/FNIDS in 1990, which have not changed in any way by 2013, have different Ad2 extension codes (E.G. Xai-Xai MZ1990A20213 becomes Xai-Xai MZ2013A20211 in 2013.
Crop Data
Context
Note that I have included a column titled “Year”, which indicates how Mozambique refers to the ag year which crosses over the January 1 boundary. This is end-aligned, or harvest aligned, as all other southern African countries.
The “Season” tab includes verified season start and end dates for the “Main” harvest/season, “Winter”, “Rice”, and “cotton” seasons.
The “Crop” tab displays crop codes used for Mozambique. Several crop codes used in this data file may need to be entered/changed in FDW to accommodate crop production in MZ.
Source organizations are only two (in Portuguese, without accents, and with acronyms). The previous Source_org entry, “Directorate ……” is just an office in the Ministerio de Agricultura, so I’ve changed it to the Ministry.
Source docs are four, including “FEWS Agro Maps”, a mix of English and Portuguese entries, none with non-English characters.
Survey type entries include one set of “Alt_crop_final” entries for the case in which FEWS Agro Map data effectively replaced missing Ministry ag survey, or original Ministry survey estimates are considered less reliable than the Ministry’s later re-evaluation and publication of 2000-2010 maize estimates.