rachidiaboudou-a11y/Africa-Rice-statistics---CHIDO

# Rice Statistics for Africa A rice intelligence and policy-support platform for 55 African countries, built directly on **FAOSTAT** and **USDA PSD**. It answers three questions and keeps them clearly apart: 1. **Where are we?** — historical statistics and structural diagnosis 2. **Where are we going?** — Box–Jenkins forecasts with prediction intervals 3. **What should we do?** — policy simulation and a least-cost path to self-sufficiency Self-sufficiency indicators follow FAO (2001), *Food Balance Sheets: A Handbook*, as applied by Gassi, Gul & Çetin (2025), *Rice Self-Sufficiency in Benin: Analysis and Forecasts*, **IJFAEC 13(1), 29–42**. The platform reproduces that paper's published Table 1 exactly, as a regression test (see *Golden test* below). --- ## Quick start No toolchain required — no Node, no Python, no Docker. ```bash powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\serve.ps1 ``` Then open . The server rebuilds `index.html` whenever a source module changes, and serves with `no-store` so a reload always reflects the last edit. If port 8788 is unavailable — on Windows it can fall inside an administered exclusion range — pass another one: `.\serve.ps1 -Port 8790`, and read `8790` for `8788` below. Run the test suite at — **501 tests**, all green. To publish the site to GitHub Pages, see DEPLOY.md. The hero carries an **original vector illustration** of lowland paddies at dawn — drawn rather than photographed because the platform is a single self-contained file with a no-external-request rule, so a stock photograph would bring a licence, a CDN dependency and a megabyte with it. To refresh the data from the official sources: ```bash powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\tools\build-data.ps1 -Refresh ``` To rebuild the map boundaries: ```bash powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File .\tools\build-geo.ps1 ``` --- ## Why this architecture The brief specified Next.js + FastAPI + PostgreSQL + Redis + Celery + Docker. **None of those runtimes …