Harvest2Market
NASA Harvest's open-access platform puts satellite crop conditions, the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor, trade relationships and food-security assessments side by side, so a blocked strait, a fertiliser shortfall and next year's rice harvest read as one chain instead of three headlines.
open the piece at harvest2market.nasaharvest.org →An existing tool, not ours, and the closest thing yet to the second-order chain the Hormuz piece wants to show. Read today.
What NASA Harvest says: "How Harvest2Market Connects Crop, Trade, and Food Security Data" (nasaharvest.org, dated May 26, year not shown on the page) describes "a web-based, open access tool" that brings together "satellite imagery, global crop monitor reports, market indicators, shipping data, and food security assessments", developed by NASA Harvest "with support from the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET)" and drawing on the GEOGLAM Crop Monitor. Its worked example: Bangladesh "produces 7% of the world's rice based on recent five-year averages", "relies heavily on fertilizer imports that pass through the Strait of Hormuz", and the platform flagged "ongoing trade disruptions as a possible factor affecting Bangladesh future rice production."
The first claim above is from Yohan Iddawela (@yohaniddawela) on X, 2026-07-08, whose longer post Anselm transcribed; the syndication endpoint truncates it. Licence: "open access" is stated; a software licence is not.
Why it is here: this is the fertiliser clock and the who-bears-it movement of the Hormuz piece, built by people whose job is to see hunger coming. The piece should cite it, and the Crop Monitor's monthly reports are a candidate record for the harvest question the urea price cannot answer.
claims it answers
- “A shipping strait seizing up on the other side of the world can shrink next year's rice harvest in Bangladesh, and until now no single tool let anyone watch that chain unfold.”
- “Bangladesh produces 7% of the world's rice based on recent five-year averages”
Real public claims, adjudicated on the piece itself, not here.
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- topics
- food, agriculture, trade, data