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

Northern Ghana farm household panel survey data from the 2019/2020 to 2023/2024 agricultural seasons, complemented by geospatial climate data. The dataset, authored by Abdul-Hanan Abdallah and shared under CC-BY-4.0, measures food self-sufficiency in kilogram units of maize equivalent and examines the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices.

Use Cases

• Modeling the impact of sustainable agricultural practice adoption on food self-sufficiency based on panel survey data.
• Analyzing regional heterogeneity in treatment effects across the three regions of northern Ghana.
• Correcting for selection bias in agricultural intervention studies using methods like Multinomial Endogenous Treatment models.
• Investigating the combined effect of complementary practice bundles, such as animal manure use, on farm household resilience.

Strengths

• Panel data structure covering four agricultural seasons from 2019/2020 to 2023/2024.
• Analysis integrates household survey data with geospatial data on climate, rainfall, and infrastructure.
• Applies advanced econometric models (MPS and MET) to address selection bias and treatment heterogeneity.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small at 4.4 KB, suggesting limited raw data or a summary document.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

Abdul-Hanan Abdallah via figshare.

Collection Method

Farm household surveys and complementary geospatial data.

Time Range

2019/2020 to 2023/2024 agricultural seasons.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 05:10:58; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Ghana.