title: An agricultural survey for more than 9,500 African households.
abstract: Surveys for more than 9,500 households were conducted in the growing seasons 2002/2003 or 2003/2004 in eleven African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger and Senegal in western Africa; Egypt in northern Africa; Ethiopia and Kenya in eastern Africa; South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe in southern Africa. Households were chosen randomly in districts that are representative for key agro-climatic zones and farming systems. The data set specifies farming systems characteristics that can help inform about the importance of each system for a country's agricultural production and its ability to cope with short- and long-term climate changes or extreme weather events. Further it informs about the location of smallholders and vulnerable systems and permits benchmarking agricultural systems characteristics.
authors.affiliation: CSIRO Agriculture, 306 Carmody Road, St Lucia, QLD 4067, Australia.
authors.forename: Katharina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Waha
authors.affiliation: University of Potsdam, Institute of Earth and Environmental Science, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 24-25, Potsdam 14476, Germany.
authors.forename: Birgit
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zipf
authors.forename: Pradeep
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kurukulasuriya
authors.affiliation: Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy Analysis in Africa (CEEPA), Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0001, Republic of South Africa.
authors.forename: Rashid M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Hassan
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D000383:Agriculture; D002980:Climate; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires