f6415041-4c70-4960-b797-c797d34f30e2 Vicki Abresch s3viabre@uni-bonn.de 2019-05-22T12:45:09 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 Farmer Innovation Contest, Ghana Upper East Region, 2012-2015 2016-09-14 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. 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. We would like to thank the extension officers and administrative staff in Ghana for their support. Tobias Wünscher Center for Development Research, Department for Economic and Technological Change, University of Bonn Senior Researcher tobias.wuenscher@web.de https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=f6415041-4c70-4960-b797-c797d34f30e2&fname=type_qualitative.png large_thumbnail png livestock farming farm farming technique agricultural method agriculture innovation GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 2010-01-13 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet contest Ghana Region 2006-09-22 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions Upper East 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 farming -1.6259551823699763 0.175802629879219 10.364620966156398 11.120180686385094 2012-01-01 2015-12-31 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 Comma Separated Values (CSV) nn WASCAL https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/file.disclaimer?uuid=f6415041-4c70-4960-b797-c797d34f30e2&fname=WSC_agr_farmer-innov-contest_Ghana-UE_2012-15.zip&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download WSC_agr_farmer-innov-contest_Ghana-UE_2012-15.zip File to download