How Far Can We Predict African Crop Yields? A Multimodal Benchmark Across 1,109 Districts and 42 Years
How accurately can we predict crop yields across sub-Saharan Africa using publicly available data? We address this question by establishing the first comprehensive machine learning benchmark on HarvestStat Africa, covering 1,109 administrative districts in 33 countries over 42 years (1981–2022). We engineer 246 feature...