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gmahia/africa-open-climate-data

Open Government Climate & Agricultural Data for Africa Catalog of openly available US government and international datasets for Africa — NASA, NOAA, USDA, FEWS NET. All public domain or open access. These are the raw material for AI coordination tools doing drought monitoring, agricultural planning, and food security analysis. Datasets Cataloged Source Dataset Resolution Period NASA TRMM Monthly precipitation 0.25° 1998-2015 NASA MODIS Land surface… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/gmahia/africa-open-climate-data.

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Open Government Climate & Agricultural Data for Africa

Catalog of openly available US government and international datasets for Africa — NASA, NOAA, USDA, FEWS NET. All public domain or open access.

These are the raw material for AI coordination tools doing drought monitoring, agricultural planning, and food security analysis.

Datasets Cataloged

Source	Dataset	Resolution	Period
NASA TRMM	Monthly precipitation	0.25°	1998-2015
NASA MODIS	Land surface temperature	1km	2000-present
NASA MODIS	Vegetation index (NDVI)	250m	2000-present
NOAA CPC	Africa Rainfall Estimates	0.1°	1983-present
NOAA CHIRPS	Daily rainfall	0.05°	1981-present
USDA FAS	Crop production estimates	Country	Annual
USDA FEWS NET	Livelihood zones	Spatial	Current

Why This Matters

East Africa's coordination infrastructure depends on:

—Drought early warning (6-8 week advance via NDVI)
—Seasonal rainfall forecasting (planting calendar)
—Food production estimates (import/export planning)
—Livelihood zone maps (shock response targeting)

All of this data exists, is free, and is currently underused in AI tools.

Related Tools

—wapimaji-mcp — drought intelligence
—kilimo-mcp — agricultural coordination
—bima-mcp — parametric insurance

Use this dataset with the coordination stack

—Evaluate any model on Swahili agent tasks: kipimo — pip install kipimo · leaderboard
—Run the MCP servers this data serves: pip install reli-cli && reli list — 33 servers on the official MCP Registry under io.github.gabrielmahia
—Route tasks across servers: africa-coord-bus — offline-first event bus with a built-in Kenya routing table
—All East Africa datasets: huggingface.co/gmahia

Open weights welcome: these resources are model-agnostic by design — closed APIs, open-weight models (Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek, Nemotron, Llama), and small distilled models score on equal terms.