Supplementary file 1_The association between climate-smart agriculture practices adoption

South African data from a study assessing the link between climate-smart agriculture practices and the welfare of small-scale urban crop farmers. The dataset includes survey responses from 412 farmers in the eThekwini Municipality, collected through a multi-stage sampling procedure. The study, authored by Nolwazi Z. Khumalo and last updated in May 2026, used descriptive analysis and conditional mixed processes to model adoption and welfare outcomes.

Use Cases

• Modeling the association between composite CSA adoption indices and farm income based on the study's methodology.
• Analyzing the impact of specific practices like agroforestry or conservation agriculture on farmer wealth.
• Investigating demographic and institutional constraints on small-scale urban agriculture adoption mentioned in the results.
• Studying potential selection bias in welfare outcomes for urban farming households.

Strengths

• Dataset is based on a survey of 412 small-scale urban crop farmers, providing a specific sample size.
• Analysis employed conditional mixed processes to jointly model adoption and welfare while accounting for potential selection bias.
• Explicitly lists the ten CSA practices (e.g., agroforestry, crop diversification) used to compute the adoption index.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for reuse and redistribution.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 96.1 KB, indicating limited scope or summary-level data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the accompanying research paper.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for certain analytical tasks.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Data collected from 412 farmers selected through a multi-stage sampling procedure, with purposive selection and snowball sampling applied at the final stage.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 15:24:14; freshness should be verified.

Geography

eThekwini Municipality, South Africa