Data version history

A major version is released whenever we make any changes to the website that cause the data to change. To keep the page clutter free, minor releases that do not change the data are not individually listed and this is indicated by the 'x' in the version number.

2.17.x

12 July 2022

  • Financial data updates
    • Price data added for 2021


2.16.x

12 May 2022

  • Adds year 2021 to the system
  • Contextual data updates
    • Burkina Faso: adds production 2020, updates 2010
    • Benin: adds production 2000-2007, 2017-2020 (millet 2021)
    • Chad: adds production and storage duration 2011
    • DRC: adds production 2016-2019, assigns all previous sorghum values to millet
    • Ghana: adds production 2008, updates corrected values in years 2008-2017
    • Guinea: adds production 2020
    • Lesotho: adds production 2016-2020, updates some corrected values in years 2010-2015, displaying annual sums for wheat
    • Madagascar: adds rice production 2012-2020, adds maize production 2005-2020, adds LGB
    • Malawi: adds production 2021 (S1 small, S2 small, S1 large)
    • Togo: adds production and LGB 2021
    • As contextual data has changed, the loss and impact numbers have been re-calculated. 


2.15.x

11 January 2022

  • Table totals added
    • Adds totals to financial impact tables 

7 September 2021

  • Table totals added
    • Adds row and column totals to value chain tables 
    • Adds row totals to nutritional loss tables

13 July 2021

  • Financial data updates
    • Updates and adds price data


2.14.x

26 May 2021

  • Contextual data updates
    • Uganda: adds annual production 2018, updates annual production 2009, replaces per season production with annual production in maize 2004-2007  
    • As contextual data has changed, the loss and impact numbers have been re-calculated. 
  • Table totals added
    • Adds row and column totals to dry weight losses tables 


2.13.x

30 March 2021

  • Contextual data updates
    • Nigeria: adds production 2019+2020 
    • Togo: adds production 2019+2020, and LGB 2020 
    • Rwanda: adds production 2019+2020
  • Financial data updates
    • GDP data added up to 2019
    • Crop price data added for 2019+2020  
    • As financial model inputs have changed, all values have been recalculated


2.12.x

08 March 2021

  • Adds year 2020 to the system
  • Production data updates
    • Burkina Faso: adds production 2019
    • Malawi: adds production 2020 deaggregated by farmsize and season
    • Mozambique: adds production 2012, 2014, 2015 deaggregated by farmsize, adds LGB data
    • Rwanda: updates some corrected values


2.11.x

12 January 2021

  • Bugfix on model
    • Fixes a bug in the model that affected the relative and absolute losses for separate value chain steps. Leads to changes in some of the loss data. The overall loss values were not affected. 


2.10.x

22 December 2020

  • Production data updates
    • Angola: adds production 2001-2009 deaggregated by farmsize (applying a mean farmtype proportion from years 2010+2011); updates 2013+2014 values (applying farmtype split from linear regression over only 2012+2018+2019)


2.9.x

07 December 2020

  • Production data updates
    • Malawi: adds production data for 2017-2019 by farmsize


2.8.x

10 November 2020

  • Production data updates
    • Angola: adds production 2010-2019 deaggregated by farmsize (2010-2012+2018-2019: original values , 2013-2014:  values obtained by applying a farmtype split from linear regression 2010-2019)
    • Burkina Faso: adds production 2000-2007 + 2018 (fonio 2017+2018), updates 2000-2018
    • Burundi: adds production 2000-2018 per 3 seasons, replaces previous annual data, adds millet
    • DRC: adds production 2015 and previous to 2008, overwrrites incorrect pre-existing production data 2010-2014
    • Guinea: adds production 2010+2014-2019, updates 2010-2013 production


2.7.x

12 June 2020

  • Data updates
    • Botswana: adds contextual data for Chobe district
    • Cameroon: adds /updates production data 1998-2001, removes false sorghum data
    • Ghana: adds cereal production data 2015-2017
    • Ethiopia: adds and corrects LGB 2016-2019, adds missing rain at harvest S1 data 2014-2016
    • Malawi: adds LGB values 2017-2019
    • Togo: adds 2000-2007+2017-2019 LGB data
    • Uganda: adds all contextual data for 2017
    • Zambia: replaces pre-existing production data 2000-2014 and share sold at harvest data 2000-2018 to be deaggregated by farmsize, adds LGB 2016-2018 by farmsize
    • Zimbabwe: updates production data till 2019, adds LGB 2014-2019
  • Administrative updates
    • Botswana: Chobe district added
    • Eswatini: new official name replaces "Swaziland"
    • Burundi and Zimbabwe: non-existing provinces removed


2.6.x

18 May 2020

  • Data updates: adds and updates Benin production data (new 2011 - 2016, updated 2008-2010)


2.5.x

24 April 2020

  • Data updates: adds Zambia production data 2015-2018 split by farmsize, adds Muchinga province to datatables


2.4.x

23 March 2020

  • New feature: financial impact tables


2.3.x

18 March 2020

  • Data updates: additional production data for Nigeria, overwriting some existing Nigeria data


2.2.x

26 November 2019

  • New feature: financial loss metric
  • New feature: nutritional impact data view
  • Data updates: contextual data updates for Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Niger, Senegal, Zambia, Rwanda


2.1.x

17 September 2019

  • New feature: nutritional losses are public feature
  • Fixes: ANA province of Malawi removed


2.0.x

29 August 2019

  • Improvement: adds estimated contextual data elements which fills many gaps in the loss tables, but also changed existing values
  • Data updates: new contextual data for 2018


1.6.x

22 January 2019

  • Fixes incorrect display of large vs. small farm losses


1.5.x

13 September 2018

  • New feature: Aflatoxin news
  • New beta feature: Aflatoxin warnings as beta feature
  • New beta feature: nutritional losses as beta feature


1.4.x

11 June 2018

  • Fixes incorrect losses in value chain table


1.3.x

2 May 2018

  • Data updates: additional contextual data for various countries
  • Fixes inconsistencies in data


1.2.x

12 March 2018

  • New feature: map display of losses and contextual data


1.0.x

1st June 2017

  • First release of the overhauled web site