CEEPA African agricultural survey

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 systems at highest risk and permits
benchmarking agricultural systems characteristics.