Data Sheet 3_From practices to plates: sustainable agricultural practices and food self-su

Panel data from farm household surveys conducted between the 2019/2020 and 2023/2024 agricultural seasons in northern Ghana. The dataset, created by Abdul-Hanan Abdallah, measures food self-sufficiency in kilogram units of maize equivalent and is complemented by geospatial climate and infrastructure data. It is used to analyze the impact of sustainable agricultural practices like animal manure use on household food security.

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 for agricultural interventions across northern Ghana.
• Correcting for selection bias in agricultural program evaluation using Multinomial Endogenous Treatment models.
• Investigating the effectiveness of bundled versus single sustainable agricultural practices on farm household resilience.

Strengths

• Panel data structure covering four agricultural seasons from 2019/2020 to 2023/2024.
• Analysis employs advanced econometric models (MPS and MET) to address selection bias and heterogeneity.
• Data is complemented by geospatial layers for climate, rainfall, and infrastructure.

Limitations

• Dataset is very small at 4.3 KB, suggesting it may be a summary or documentation file rather than the raw survey data.
• 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 collection.

Time Range

2019/2020 to 2023/2024 agricultural seasons.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 05:11:10; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Ghana (three regions).