Sub-national Crop Production Statistics for Official Admin Units in West-Africa, 1961-2012 (combined from various sources)

Crop production statistics at sub-national level are provided by national and international organisations at different levels of detail. The downloadable file is a combination of many sources with the aim to generate long time series for homogeneous crops. The crop classifications follow the WAGR nomenclature for crops provided by the same author. In general, the statistics were created as follows: 1. National Statistical Organisations, if not available then 2. FAO CountryStat, if not available then 3. FAO AgroMaps The National Statistical Organisations who provided agricultural production statistics were: Ghana: Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MOFA) Burkina Faso: STATISTIQUES AGRICOLES AU BURKINA FASO (AGRISTAT) Benin: Ministère de l’Agriculture de l’Elevage et de la Pêche (MAEP)