Waha, KatharinaZipf, BirgitKurukulasuriya, PradeepHassan, Rashid M.2016-09-212016-09-212016-05Waha, K, Zipf, B, Kurukulasuriya, P & Hassan, RM 2016, 'An agricultural survey for more than 9,500 African households', An agricultural survey for more than 9,500 African households, Scientific Data, vol. 3, art. #160020, pp. 1-8.2052-446310.1038/sdata.2016.20http://hdl.handle.net/2263/56777Surveys for more than 9,500 households were conducted in the growing seasons 2002/2003 or 2003/2004 in eleven African countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger and Senegal in western Africa; Egypt in northern Africa; Ethiopia and Kenya in eastern Africa; South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe in southern Africa. Households were chosen randomly in districts that are representative for key agro-climatic zones and farming systems. The data set specifies farming systems characteristics that can help inform about the importance of each system for a country’s agricultural production and its ability to cope with short- and long-term climate changes or extreme weather events. Further it informs about the location of smallholders and vulnerable systems and permits benchmarking agricultural systems characteristics.en© 2016 [Author et al]This is an open access article. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0.Agricultural surveyFarming systemsAfrican householdsAgro-climatic zonesArticle