10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Harvard Dataverse 2015 Arts and Humanities Social Sciences agricultural systems technology monitoring evaluation employment health income expenditure credit shock economic growth rural areas Ghana West Africa Africa South of Sahara Africa Impact assessment International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) IFPRI-DATA International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) Azzarri, Carlo (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)) Haile, Beliyou (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)) Comanescu, Maria (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)) Signorelli, Sara (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)) Roberts, Cleo (International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)) Tinonin, Cecilia (Independent Consultant) Cecilia (Independent Consultant) Tinonin Pan African Field Services Limited (Panafields) 2015 2014 2015-12-24 2015-12-31 2024-01-16 sample survey data (ssd) 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/XIXEYG 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/7UMA60 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/WDIEFS 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/ZMB3T1 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/VEHQQO 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/ZKFC9J 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/16YM7C 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/NOH2AX 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/IKTCUS 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/TEZVK1 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/5CDBMS 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/HJRCGG 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/JB9W59 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/ZBZ0XA 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/FCOYCH 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/EKTLRJ 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/LXECGO 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/RCMVQD 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/RVO9BM 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/PPV751 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/DKTCWJ 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/F1YNRR 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/SELGB1 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/2TAXJK 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/TN1CVI 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/9MUIAK 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/TDFR54 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/XIBGNS 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/ZP8FMT 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/Q1DBW9 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/DHRB39 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/IN3UCG 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/IIXWIP 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/5UJXNR 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/PB2PFQ 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/TP1QT4 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/9T7BII 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/TWTB4W 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/FFVUAN 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/7LDYBV 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/JPHOZX 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/RDAEMZ 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/R0SOST 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/JDT5XT 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/CYZDII 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/C8IXM7 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/9MK4QD 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/FIDSES 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/J1V66M 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/VYRS63 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/HZDFLW 10.7910/DVN/QUB9UT/JR5LDL 118373 118373 661635 527218 212258 454211 384191 333923 361334 334088 251049 758909 188586 198485 198393 61316 69297 58691 6301 60720 343290 392576 109712 934835 1969146 248807 83453 343292 194815 4500 12607 30672 21940 2178 7292 6067 1806 4349 4927 7313 23596 9041 1443 140138 44715 1506580 680318 507195 996868 704915 1985288 219565 text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values text/tab-separated-values application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf 1.7 Custom terms specific to this dataset As part of the US government’s Feed the Future initiative that aims to address global hunger and food security issues in sub-Saharan Africa, the US Agency for International Development is supporting three multi-stakeholder agricultural research projects under Africa Research In Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING - AR) program. The overall aim of the program is to transform agricultural systems through sustainable intensification projects in Ghana, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Mali, and (potentially) Zambia. In West Africa, IITA works with multi-disciplinary R4D partners in selected communities located in Northern Ghana and Southern Mali. More particularly, in Northern Ghana three regions were chosen for the study: the Northern, Upper-East and Upper-West regions. These areas cover both maize-based and rice-vegetables-based systems and therefore allow to address the production constraints characterizing both realities7. As IFPRI (2012) highlights, the northern regions of Ghana are characterized by small land holdings and low input - low output farming systems, which adversely impact food security. In particular, they are subject to a seasonal cycle of food insecurity of three to seven months for cereals (i.e., maize, millet and sorghum) and four to seven months for legumes (i.e., groundnuts, cowpeas, and soybeans). These crops in the savannahs are often produced in a continuous monoculture, steadily depleting soil natural resources and causing the yields per unit area to fall to very low levels. The poverty profile of Ghana identifies the three northern regions as the poorest and most hunger-stricken areas in the country. Gender inequalities are also apparent in these regions, since women have limited access to resources and therefore limited capacity to generate income on their own. STATA, 13 Household- and Community-level Surveys Ghana Washington, DC United States Agency for International Development (USAID)