Data Sets

Find below links to data sets from past research projects.

• Gerardo E. Soto, Steven Wilcox, Patrick E. Clark, Francesco P. Fava, Nathan M. Jensen, Njoki Kahiu, Chuan Liao, Benjamin Porter, Ying Sun, and Christopher B. Barrett, Mapping Rangeland Health Indicators in East Africa from 2000 to 2022, Earth System Science Data Nov 2023.
• Journal manuscript submissions and reviews data (anonymized) for 2019-21 for AEPP, AJAE, Food Policy, and J. Agricultural Economics, as described in Biondi et al. (Food Policy 2021).
• Rangelands Conditions Photo Database - 100K photos and associated rangeland vegetation assessments were taken/made March - July 2015 by 113 pastoralists in Northern Kenya while going about their daily lives. The contributors were asked to collect submissions as much as they liked, as long as those submissions were collected during daylight hours and were a minimum of 60 minutes apart. A submission entailed taking a photo of the landscape and then completing a short survey about the prevalence of trees, shrubs and grasses; the dominant color of the leaves/grasses for each, if occurring, and their palatability for livestock. In addition, participant provide a coarse estimate of the carrying capacity of the immediate area, types of animals grazing there, and distance to the nearest waterpoint. The project provided participants with a small token per submission.
• Pastoral Risk Management (PARIMA) – a quarterly survey of communities, households and individuals from northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia, 2000-2, along with a 2003 annual round and supplementary data.
• AMA-CRSP Survey of Risk Coping and Social Networks in Rural Ghana – building on the 1997-98 Agricultural Innovation and Resource Management in Ghanaian Households data Chris Udry and Markus Goldstein originally collected, my students Jacqueline Vanderpuye-Orgle and Thomas Walker revisited households in 2004-5 and 2009, respectively, to construct more extensive panel data in those four villages of Akwapim South district.
• Household panel data from northern Kenya (annual rounds since 2009) and southern Ethiopia (annual rounds since 2012) collected in support of the International Livestock Research Institute-led research program on index-based livestock insurance.
• World Bank Development Research Group Living Standards Measurement Surveys – Integrated Surveys on Agriculture (LSMS-ISA) data – nationally representative, large-scale, cross-nationally comparable household survey data from Ethiopia, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.
• Monthly maize, petrol and exchange rates data, 2000-2012, from global markets and from a range of spatially distinct markets in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, from a paper Brian Dillon and I have on oil and maize price transmission.

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