Agricultural data 60% open

Kenya

What data is expected?

A selection of key national statistics on agricultural output and environmental conditions. Data can be national aggregate figures as described in our research handbook

  • Crop yield
  • Crop prices
  • Soil properties
  • Weather conditions
  • None of the above

How open is the data?

All answers

Question Answer Comment
Available free of charge Yes
Downloadable Yes
Publicly available Yes
Openly licenced Yes
Up-to-date No
In an open and machine-readable format Crop prices: csv. Crop yield, weather data: pdf Soil properties: shapefile
Digital data No
Print data No
location https://www.opendata.go.ke/datasets?q=crop - Kenya Open Data Portal: The data is on proportion of households engaged in crop production, and monthly price of crop commodities., https://www.knbs.or.ke/download/economic-survey-2017/ - Crop yield (page 151): 2012-2016, national aggregations, https://www.meteo.go.ke/index.php?q=home - weather data: pdf reports and online vizualization archive: seasonal forecasts (2014, 2016), current and previous month, current and previous 7 days and current and previous 4 days, https://192.156.137.110/gis/search.asp?id=419 - Soil properties: a shapefile that, as it is mentioned, has been built using the Kenya Soil Survey. access control: one needs to give some detalis to download format: georeferenced shapefile
Collected by government Yes
findable_steps Review of initial
characteristics Crop yield, Crop prices, Soil properties, Weather conditions
Controlled access No For soil properties, one needs to give his/hers details.
Collector name Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigatio, Kenya ICT Authority, Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Authority, Kenya Meteorological Department Kenya, Agricultural Research Institute The ICT Authority provides an open data platform and provides technical support to the ministry to publish data.
licence_url page https://www.opendata.go.ke/

Meta data

Data location   https://www.opendata.go.ke/datasets?q=crop - Kenya Open Data Portal: The data is on proportion of households engaged in crop production, and monthly price of crop commodities.
   https://www.knbs.or.ke/download/economic-survey-2017/ - Crop yield (page 151): 2012-2016, national aggregations
   https://www.meteo.go.ke/index.php?q=home - weather data: pdf reports and online vizualization archive: seasonal forecasts (2014, 2016), current and previous month, current and previous 7 days and current and previous 4 days
   https://192.156.137.110/gis/search.asp?id=419 - Soil properties: a shapefile that, as it is mentioned, has been built using the Kenya Soil Survey. access control: one needs to give some detalis to download format: georeferenced shapefile
Data licence   page https://www.opendata.go.ke/
Data format   Unknown
Reviewer   Codrina Maria Ilie
Submitters   Paul Mungai
Last modified   Sun May 06 2018 12:11:48 GMT+0000 (UTC)