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

Panel data from farm household surveys conducted between the 2019/2020 and 2023/2024 agricultural seasons in northern Ghana, complemented by geospatial climate data. The dataset, authored by Abdul-Hanan Abdallah and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license, measures food self-sufficiency in kilogram units of maize equivalent to analyze the impact of sustainable practices.

Use Cases

• Modeling the impact of sustainable agricultural practices on food self-sufficiency based on panel 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 methods like Multinomial Endogenous Treatment models.
• Investigating the combined effect of complementary practice bundles, such as animal manure use, on farm household resilience.

Strengths

• Data spans a 5-year panel from the 2019/2020 to 2023/2024 agricultural seasons.
• Analysis employs advanced econometric models (MPS and MET) to address selection bias and heterogeneity.
• Integrates household survey data with geospatial data on climate, rainfall, and infrastructure.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small (4.2 KB), suggesting it may contain summary or processed 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 05:11:03; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Ghana.