Nationally Representative Farm/Household Level Dataset on Crop Production in Ghana from 1987-2017

Reliable and comprehensive national agricultural statistics are crucial not only for agricultural development but general economic transformation. While data collected via the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) provides Ghana with this avenue, the reports from this data generated by the Ghana Statistical Service neither consider the trends nor in-depth analysis of agricultural statistics. This paper sets the premise to fill this knowledge gap by harmonizing and generating a nationally representative micro-level dataset from all previous LSMSs. The harmonized data has the widest geographic and seasonal coverage of farmers in Ghana. As such it presents a unique opportunity to empirically analyze key agricultural phenomena at the household if not at the farmer level