@article{WahaZipfKurukulasuriyaetal.2016,
  author    = {Waha, Katharina and Zipf, Birgit and Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep and Hassan, Rashid M.},
  title     = {An agricultural survey for more than 9,500 African households},
  series = {Scientific Data},
  volume    = {3},
  journal   = {Scientific Data},
  publisher = {Nature Publ. Group},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {2052-4463},
  doi       = {10.1038/sdata.2016.20},
  pages     = {8},
  year      = {2016},
  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.},
  language  = {en}
}