Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Food Self-Sufficiency in Northern Ghana, 2019-2024

Abdul-Hanan Abdallah's panel dataset examines the impact of sustainable agricultural practices on food self-sufficiency among farm households in northern Ghana. The data spans the 2019/2020 to 2023/2024 agricultural seasons and includes household survey data complemented by geospatial climate and infrastructure data. Food self-sufficiency is measured in kilogram units of maize equivalent.

Use Cases

• Modeling the effect of sustainable agricultural practices on food self-sufficiency based on household survey data.
• Analyzing regional heterogeneity in treatment effects across northern Ghana based on the study's findings.
• Correcting for selection bias in agricultural intervention studies using the described Multinomial Endogenous Treatment model.
• Investigating the impact of complementary practice bundles versus single practices on food security outcomes.

Strengths

• Data covers a multi-year panel from the 2019/2020 to 2023/2024 agricultural seasons.
• Analysis is complemented by geospatial data on climate, rainfall, and infrastructure.
• Dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting open reuse and adaptation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The primary data file is a 4.5 KB PDF, indicating a very limited data scope, likely containing summary results rather than raw survey data.

Provenance

Source

Abdul-Hanan Abdallah via figshare.

Collection Method

Farm household surveys and geospatial data collection.

Time Range

2019/2020 to 2023/2024 agricultural seasons.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 05:11:02; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Ghana.