{"doc_desc":{"title":"gha-isser-agra-2016-v1","producers":[{"name":"Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research","abbreviation":"ISSER","affiliation":"University of Ghana","role":"Metadata creator"}],"prod_date":"2021-11-09","version_statement":{"version":"1"}},"study_desc":{"title_statement":{"idno":"gha-isser-agra-2016-v1","title":"Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa 2016","sub_title":"Ghana Baseline Survey","alt_title":"AGRA 2016"},"authoring_entity":[{"name":"Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research (ISSER)","affiliation":"University of Ghana"}],"series_statement":{"series_name":"Agricultural Survey"},"version_statement":{"version":"Version 1","version_date":"2016"},"study_info":{"abstract":"The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) aims to effect market-led agricultural transformation in Africa. In Ghana, its objectives are to increase farmer productivity through access to quality inputs, reduce post-harvest losses through access to post-harvest storage technologies and support farmers through an enabling policy environment. The Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) was tasked to conduct a baseline survey of farmer households in two regions in Ghana, Brong Ahafo and Northern, to create baseline data of farming practices, yields, post-harvest loss and other features of the value chain in the cultivation of four major crops; namely maize, rice, cassava and soybean. The data is intended to help identify key challenges to the production of these crops in the two regions, and support the development and subsequent evaluation of AGRA interventions over a five-year period.","coll_dates":[{"start":"2016-10-18","end":"2016-12-07","cycle":""}],"nation":[{"name":"Ghana","abbreviation":"gha"}],"geog_coverage":"AGRA's five-year strategy covers the Brong Ahafo and Northern regions, located in the Guinea Savana and Transitional agro-ecological zones, where agricultural production mainly occurs.","geog_unit":"The data is at the level of District and Community","analysis_unit":"Households and individuals","data_kind":"Focus group and survey data","notes":"The survey collected the following data on households:\nDemographic data and data on education and literacy of household members, household Welfare (income, employment), food security, household assets, housing characteristics and access to credit and savings, womens empoyerment, time use, and womens dietary diversity.\n\nAgricultural data collected included:\nAgricultural production and input access \nPlot characteristics and soil quality \nFarm labour \nChemical use \nAwareness of hybrid\/improved seed varieties and usage \nAgricultural mechanisation \nFarmer based organisations' (fbos) membership \nAwareness and use of extension services and agronomic practices \nCrop yields and pre-harvest crop losses \nPost-harvest storage, crop sales, processing and market price"},"method":{"data_collection":{"coll_mode":"Face-to-Face Interviews and Focus Groups"}},"data_access":{"dataset_use":{"contact":[{"name":"Ghana ACEIR Hub, ISSER","affiliation":"University of Ghana","email":"joanakwawu@gmail.com","uri":"www.isser.ug.edu.gh"}],"cit_req":"Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research. Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa 2016, Ghana Baseline Survey [dataset]. Version 1.Accra: ISSER [producer], 2016. Accra: Ghana ACEIR Hub [distributor], 2021.","conditions":"Public access data, available to all"}}},"schematype":"survey"}