Carsten Meyer

... Kyle Davis, @agroclim.bsky.social, Steffen Ehrmann, Rafaela Flach, Jonathan Proctor, Deepak Ray, Liangzhi You, Michael Foley, Hervé Kerdiles, Andrew Hultgren, Peter Huybers, Endalkachew Kebede, Michele Meroni, Caro Park, Donghoon Lee, or me.

Here’s our HarvestStat vision in paper format (lnkd.in/exGePXFy) – if it resonates with you and you’d like to contribute, please get in touch with any of the authors ...

But much work is still to be done.

Now we're calling on you to tackle this together!

Once we started working together, progress happened so much faster. We’ve already reached important milestones (e.g., check out the HarvestStat Africa database: lnkd.in/eJbCvdMZ).

And about (2/2):
• Effective use of scarce resources
• Reducing the time before data support critical insights & applications
• Our shared commitment to making agricultural data a global public good

HarvestStat is our model for solving the problem.

It’s about (1/2):
• Complete, high-quality subnational data worldwide
• Open access and FAIR principles
• Standards for harmonization & validation
• Deep collaboration & inclusion of local expertise

We worked for years to bring those data together. But each of us only got so far. And our efforts remained disconnected, uncoordinated, redundant, and lacking shared standards.

That’s a problem.

Ever needed high-quality subnational data on agriculture for more than a single country and found these hard to come by?

So did we.

But we found a solution. A 🧵