First, development strategy options are characterized to identify the desirable ranges of conditions that would most favor successful strategy implementation. This would be a significant step for many policy analysis units, typically run by economists. At a more conceptual level we propose that it is the characterization of location , not the narrowly-focused characterization of land, that is more properly the focus of attention from a development perspective. The paper includes appropriate examples of spatial analysis using data from East Africa and Burkina Faso, and concludes with an appendix describing and interpreting regional climate and soil data for Sub-Saharan Africa that was directly relevant to our original goal. Download full-text discussion paper .
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