A selection of key national statistics on agricultural output and environmental conditions. Data can be national aggregate figures as described in our research handbook
| Question | Answer | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Available free of charge | Yes | |
| Downloadable | Yes | |
| Publicly available | Yes | |
| Openly licenced | No | No clear indication. |
| Up-to-date | No | |
| In an open and machine-readable format | CSV, XLS | Atomcsv |
| Digital data | No | |
| Print data | Yes | |
| location | href="https://benin.opendataforafrica.org/emcqbqg/statistiques-agricoles-benin" https://benin.opendataforafrica.org/emcqbqg/statistiques">rel="nofollow">https://benin.opendataforafrica.org/emcqbqg/statistiques - open data portal for Africa | The data intervals are different for each crop (2010, 2011 but put to 2015). |
| Collected by government | Yes | |
| findable_steps | I first did a search on the website of the Ministry of Agriculture. This search was unsuccessful. Then I called statisticians who work at the Department of Agriculture to get the information. | |
| characteristics | Crop yield, Crop prices | Research soil maps: https://sphaera.cartographie.ird.fr/liste_cartes.php?iso=BEN&nom=BENIN (supported by France through project NumeriSud). Classification of Benin soils, reported to FAO by the Centre national d’agropedologie - CENAP [https://www.fao.org/docrep/005/y3948f/y3948f05.htm#P0_0] . |
| Controlled access | Yes | |
| Collector name | Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Economique (INSAE) du Benin LE CENTRE NATIONAL D´AGRO-PEDOLOGIE | The National Directorate of Agricultural Statistics is a department of the Ministry of Agriculture charged. to collect agricultural data. Yet the data is published by the Institut National de la Statistique et de l’Analyse Economique (INSAE) du Benin. |