1. Farmer survey of EbA use and perceived effectiveness

This data set includes information from surveys of 300 smallholder coffee and basic grain farmers in Central America. The data base ‘1_Farmer_Survey_Database’ includes general information on the farmers and their households, the farming systems (e.g., land uses and land use change, crop management practices), prevalence of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) practices, data on farmer perceptions of the effectiveness of these EbA practices in helping reduce the impact of climate change on their crops, limitations for the implementation and maintenance of EbA practices, problems affecting production and information on the support farmers need to cope with the impacts of climate change. The accompanying glossary ‘1_Farmer_Survey_Glossary’ provides a description of all variables in the ‘1_Farmer_Survey_Database’ and their respective units. The first two sheets in the glossary are in in Spanish; sheets 3 and 4 are in English. The file ‘1_Farmer_Survey_Instrument’ is the survey instrument (in Spanish) used to collect the data in the ‘Farmer Survey Database’. The related file "Metadata CASCADE WP4 datasets" gives detailed information on the project, methods, data sets and files included in the dataverse 'Characteristics and use of EbA practices by smallholder farmers in Central America'.