Transitions
Tunisia's Date Exports: One Dollar of Water in Every Two
The fossil water behind Tunisia's exported dates is worth about half the revenue those exports earn — and falling water-per-tonne is hiding rising extraction.
Program
Transitions & Resilience
How can data help societies understand and manage systemic transitions?
Sustainability, water, energy, food systems, climate, agriculture, economic shocks, and regional resilience.
Water stress, energy dependence, food systems, and economic shocks rarely move in isolation — they compound, and the societies least cushioned against them often have the least data to anticipate them. This program turns open data into specific, contestable analysis of how these transitions unfold, with particular attention to North Africa and the Global South. The point is not forecasting for its own sake, but giving public actors evidence they can act on while the window is still open.
Tools & publications
Full Library →Public Data
Dam Levels Data, Ontology and MCP Server
Eleven years of Tunisia's daily dam bulletins (2014–2025) as an audited open dataset, a linked ontology and a read-only MCP server.
Public Data
tanitmap-ai
The first agentic map for Tunisian agricultural data — ask in natural language, get a chart, map, table, or short text in return.
Public Data
ONEM MCP
A qualifier-aware MCP server over Tunisia's national energy statistics (2010–2026), derived from public ONEM reports.
Transitions
Southern Tunisia's Date Oases: Monitor the Aquifer, Not the Yields
Twenty-two years of satellite data: the aquifer is draining, harvests keep growing, but climate is starting to show through in good and bad years again.
Transitions
Sidi Bouzid's Solar Paradox: Diffusion Without a State
Seven points to understand how 3,201 solar pumps appeared in Sidi Bouzid without public subsidy, and what the 2025 Finance Law still needs to fix.
Transitions
Tunisia's 2026 Oil Shock: A Six-to-Nine-Month Policy Window
A stress test of Tunisia's exposure to the 2026 Middle East oil shock, using IFs v8.28 across a moderate and a protracted scenario, with three sequenced policy recommendations.
Public Data
agridata MCP
A Model Context Protocol server connecting LLM clients to Tunisia's open agricultural data.
Work with us on this program
Researchers, institutions, and funders who want to contribute to this program — through data, a partner challenge, or a collaboration — can reach the studio via the Get Involved page.