The data on groundwater were collected from 12 piezometers installed in the Bongo and Vea Irrigation Schemes. Data collection started on 01.10.2014.

This data is the result of collecting opinions of stakeholders on how they decide to use their land use products for generating benefits (food provision, fodder provision, energy provision, construction material provision and market value provision).

There have been recent incidences of weather extremes in the West African Sudan Savanna and farmers have responded through implementation of relevant adaptation strategies. For a deeper insight into farmers’ adaptation to climatic shocks, this study documents farmers’ perception of recent changes in the local climate, and identifies factors that influence the number and choice of strategies implemented. Interdependencies among strategies are explored and joint and marginal probabilities of adoption estimated. Upper East Ghana and Southwest Burkina Faso are used as the case study regions. These regions were selected due to extreme reliance of inhabitants on agriculture for sustenance, and their recent exposure to weather extremes. Through estimation of a Poisson regression and multivariate probit model to identify the major factors that influence the number and choice of strategies adopted, we discover that limited access to credit, markets, and extension services, smaller cropland area, and low level of mechanization could impede effective adaptation to weather extremes. To enhance farmers’ adaptive capacity, policy makers and various stakeholders need to contribute towards improving farmers’ access to credit, markets, and extension services, and implement measures to promote mechanization.

The questionnaire is about current and future direct and indirect drivers of land use/cover change (LUCC), positive or negative impact of drivers of LUCC on food security and water security and trends of land cover and crop types under "business as usual"in the Upper East Region (UER). The questionnaire has been send by e-mail to researchers (experts) in Ghana who are doing or have done research on land use changes in the Upper East Region. The questionnaire is based on interviews with researchers in Ghana on driving forces of land use change in the Upper East Region, conducted in November 2013.

The questionnaire is about current and future direct and indirect drivers of land use/cover change (LUCC) and trends of land cover and crop types under "business as usual" in the Upper East Region (UER). The questionnaire was conducted between Oct. 2014 and Feb. 2015 and is based on interviews with researchers in Ghana on driving forces of land use change in the Upper East Region, conducted in November 2013.

This data is the result of a stakeholder survey to identify their perception on the effects of land use alternatives. Regarding seven different ecosystem services(food provision, fodder provision, energy provision, construction material provision, market value provision, water provision and erosion control), it presents how they can be altered in a positive or a negative way by per cent when stakeholders choose a certain land use scenario.

The population of livestock estimated for the Gowrie subdistrict of the Bongo district in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Data from 2013-2016 are based on projections with an annual growth rate of 10%.

We interviewed stakeholders in the land use planning process at the district level to get a clear understanding of urbanization and the process of formal and informal land use planning, as a complement to already existing data. Stakeholders are representatives of organizations which have been or should be involved in land use planning at different levels of statutory planning. Examples are public authorities on different levels, non-governmental organizations, traditional heads and residents. Interviewees were asked to present: - their understanding of land use planning and urbanization, - the different stages of the planning process, - the roles of different institutions, - how land use priorities were considered in the planning process, - the inclusion of environmentally sensitive areas in planning, - the level of local participation in land use planning, - key spatially explicit determinants of spatial growth in the districts, and - the internal and external hindrances to successful planning.

Water levels of the Bongo Central dam recorded daily from water gauges installed in the reservoir. The data collection started on 09.12.2014 and still in progress.

This dataset describe household survey conducted in the Vea watershed of Ghana between the periods May 2013 to February 2014. It describes several household characteristics such as age, gender, income sources, agricultural production levels, Occurrence of droughts and floods as well as the impact of these hazards. The data also include several derived parameters such as household income, household size in adult equivalent scale, Tropical livestock units and poverty prevalence.