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 | 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/ |