Mawuli-Akpey/Africa-s-Maize-and-Wheat-Production

# Maize and Wheat Production in Africa ## Dataset This dataset consists of information on the Gross Production Index of different agricultural produce for individual countries, regions and the world as a whole. This dataset can be found in FAO's repository of food statistics. (fao.org) ## Summary of Findings In this exploration, we found out that maize production in Africa had a slightly steeper growth than global maize production indicating a more positive growth from 2001 to 2020. The highest percentage rate change occured from 2016 to 2017 for maize production in Africa. Further investigations tells us that Southern Africa's almost 1% increase in GPI was responsible for that particular sudden jump in GPI by the African continent. However 2018 recorded a significant dip with Southern Africa losing its grip along with a significant drop from the Northern Africa region resulting in the entire drop for the African region. Western, Easterna and Middle Africa had a relatively stable positive growth in terms of GPI for maize production. Africa's maize production ended with a higher GPI to global maize GPI. Wheat on the other hand displayed a slightly different story with the total global GPI being higher than Africa's by the end of the period under study. Africa's production of wheat saw significant year on year fluctuations attributing to the high difference in GPI ranges. Western Africa saw the fastest growth from 2001 to 2011 ## Key Insights for Presentation For the presentation, I focus on how each African sub-region has contributed to the maize and wheat production as a fraction of Africa's total production from 2001 to 2020. I start by comparing the trend of Africa's production GPI to that of global GPI for both maize and wheat across the same time period. Then I focus on the influence of the five different sub-regions on the total production of wheat and maize by plotting each trends in one single plot. I wil then look at …