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Farmer Innovation Contest, Ghana Upper East Region, 2012-2015
The data set contains the applications to the WASCAL Farmer Innovation Contest. The contest took place in the years 2012-2015, respectively, in the Upper East Region in Ghana.
Eligible to partake in the contest were local small-scale farmers form the region. Their agricultural innovations could be either of technical, institutional or organisational kind. A broad range of innovation themes were covered, such as animal husbandry, crop management or storage innovations.
The table provides information about the applicants, e.g. basic demographics, and their innovations, e.g. theme of innovation, problem addressed, or obstacles and costs in applying the innovations.
The data was collected in questionnaires that served as the application to the contest. Local extension officers assisted in the application process. In the final step, a jury of experts evaluated the innovations and determined the contest winners. Winners of the contest were awarded with material or monetary prices.
Additionally, the data set provides basic descriptive statistics for all contest runs, e.g. share of pest or disease related innovations of total innovations.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2016-09-14
- Presentation form
- Digital table
- Purpose
- The general purpose of the data generation was knowledge and technology transfer. The data set contains valuable information about the agricultural problems that small-scale farmers in Upper East Ghana face. Their innovative solutions to the problems are easily adaptable since they are low cost and often based on the use of local resources. Therefore, the contest was created to make the hidden local knowledge and technologies accessible for researchers, farmers and other interested actors, so that more farmers and communities may benefit from innovations in small-scale agriculture.
- Credit
- We would like to thank the extension officers and administrative staff in Ghana for their support.
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
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- livestock farming
- farm
- farming technique
- agricultural method
- agriculture
- innovation
- Theme
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- contest
- Region
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- Ghana
- Place
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- Upper East
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
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This data is licensed under ODC Open Database License (ODbL)
http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/
Citation:
Wünscher, T. (2016): Farmer Innovation Contest, Ghana Upper East Region, 2012-2015. https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/?uuid=f6415041-4c70-4960-b797-c797d34f30e2
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Farming
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- Begin date
- 2012-01-01
- End date
- 2015-12-31
- Supplemental Information
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Table Items
Year
ID
Mofa District Office
Area
Application Type
Gender
Age
No. of Group Members
No.of Female Members
Winning Innovation
Theme of Innovation
Type of Innovation
Name of Innovation
Description of Innovation
Problem addressed
Implementation
Direct benefit
Obstacles
Costs
Why is it an innovation and not common practice?
Year of Development
Year of Implementation
Adoption of Innovation
Awareness of Contest through
Notes
Statistics
- Distribution format
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Comma Separated Values (CSV)
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nn
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Comma Separated Values (CSV)
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nn
)
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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WSC_agr_farmer-innov-contest_Ghana-UE_2012-15.zip
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
File to download
- File identifier
- f6415041-4c70-4960-b797-c797d34f30e2 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2019-05-22T12:45:09
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
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