Farmer Survey Dataset

19 Jun 2024 •

Oscar Baruffa

and

Charlotte Keijser

and

Sidney Muchule

and

Mercy Makena Miriti

and

Jildemarie Brouwer

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Farmer Survey Dataset containing some 15000 survey responses as part of the FarmFit programme of IDH. Dataset has been subset, cleaned and responses recoded to preserve anonymity.

These responses were collected via the Akvo Foundation following our standardised methodology, underpinned by our Learning Framework and based upon our Farmer Survey Question Library.

This work is made available under the CC4.0 licence, meaning you are free to share, copy or redistribute the material, even commercially, provided you give attribution to IDH.

The dataset is also available on Zenodo.

The Codebook is available in the workbook, and presented here:

Variable

question

country

country where survey was conducted

region

region where survey was conducted

education level

What is the highest level of education that the farmer achieved?

gender

What is the gender of the farmer?

age group

What is the age of the farmer?

household size

How many people live in the household?

farm size (acres)

What is the total size of the farm?

crop type

Type of focus crop

farming experience

For how many years have you been farming on the current farm location?

land tenure

Do you own or rent the land you use for farming?

fertiliser

In this period (within the last 12 months), did you use fertiliser (including compost) to take care of the focus crop?

certified seeds

In this period (within the last 12 months), did you buy seeds for the focus crop?

pest management

In this period (within the last 12 months), did you use pesticides/fungicides/herbicides to take care of the focus crop?

phone ownership

Do you currently own a personal mobile phone?

internet use

Do you use internet?

agricultural financing

In the past 12 months, have you taken any loans? (e.g. from a local lender, microfinance bank, NGO, relative, cooperative)

bank account

Do you have a bank/Microfinance account?

mobile account

Do you have a mobile money account? (Farmer does not need to have credit or a loan, this question concerns mainly the account)

losses-rain pattern

Over the past 5 years, did you experience crop losses due to changing rain patterns (including floods) on this farm location?

losses-drought

Over the past 5 years, did you experience crop losses due to drought on this farm location?

losses-heatwave

Over the past 5 years, did you experience crop losses due to heatwaves on this farm location?

losses-storms

Over the past 5 years, did you experience crop losses due to storms (including cyclones, monsoons) on this farm location?

losses-mudslides

Over the past 5 years, did you experience crop losses due to mudslides on this farm location?

farmer organization

Are you member of a farmer organisation? (Cooperative, VSLA, SACCO, community group etc.)

service provider awareness

Have you heard of [service provider]? (if farmer receives input financing from [service provider] you can fill in yes without asking the question)

agricultural continuity

Do you intend to continue working in agriculture?

land expansion

Do you plan to increase the land you farm on in the future?

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Farmer Survey Dataset