Africa_corporate_irrigation

Project exploring drivers of corporate irrigation expansion

Instructions

1. Install Conda

2. Create environment and install requirements

conda create -n irrigation python=3.12 -y
conda activate irrigation
pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Add data

Shapefile containing Center Pivots across the World

You can obtain the shp file containing the world's center pivots here.

To extract the Center Pivots identified in 2021, download all files in this folder and run the following code in the terminal:

cd ~/Downloads 
zip -s 0 World_CPIS_2021.zip --out World_CPIS_2021_together.zip
unzip World_CPIS_2021_together.zip

The data from 2000 can be obtained analogously.

Other data

All data is either created using the code in this repository or can be downloaded elsewhere. Refer to the config.yaml file for links to and descriptions of datasets.

4. Run the files

Run the files in the order their numbered names suggest in order to recreate the entire project.