An agricultural survey for more than 9,500 African households

Surveys for more than 9,500 households were conducted in the growing seasons 2002/2003 or 2003/2004 in eleven African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger and Senegal in western Africa; Egypt in northern Africa; Ethiopia and Kenya in eastern Africa; South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe in so...

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Published in:Scientific data 2016-05, Vol.3 (1), p.160020-160020, Article 160020
Main Authors: Waha, Katharina, Zipf, Birgit, Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep, Hassan, Rashid M.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Africa
Agriculture
Climate
Data Descriptor
Family Characteristics
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
multidisciplinary
Science
Surveys and Questionnaires
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Summary:Surveys for more than 9,500 households were conducted in the growing seasons 2002/2003 or 2003/2004 in eleven African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger and Senegal in western Africa; Egypt in northern Africa; Ethiopia and Kenya in eastern Africa; South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe in southern Africa. Households were chosen randomly in districts that are representative for key agro-climatic zones and farming systems. The data set specifies farming systems characteristics that can help inform about the importance of each system for a country’s agricultural production and its ability to cope with short- and long-term climate changes or extreme weather events. Further it informs about the location of smallholders and vulnerable systems and permits benchmarking agricultural systems characteristics. Design Type(s) observation design • parallel group design Measurement Type(s) Agriculture Technology Type(s) survey method Factor Type(s) Sample Characteristic(s) Burkina Faso • Cameroon • Egypt • Ethiopia • Ghana • Kenya • Niger • Senegal • South Africa • Zambia • Zimbabwe • cultivated environment Machine-accessible metadata file describing the reported data (ISA-Tab format)
ISSN:2052-4463
2052-4463
DOI:10.1038/sdata.2016.20