Guiding Investments in Sustainable Agricultural Intensification in Africa (GISAIA): Mali Country Studies

Data was collect in 58 villages in cercles of Dioila, Kati and Koutiala corresponding to the zones where Institut d'économie rurale (IER) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) conducted sorghum breeding activities during the period 2009 to 2013. The multi-­visit analytic survey was conducted in four rounds from August 2014 through June 2015, with a combination of paper questionnaires and computer-­assisted personal interviews, by a team of experienced enumerators employed by IER. Survey rounds covered: 1) inventories of plots, livestock, agricultural equipment and household assets; utilization of the harvest from the previous season; 2) input use and labor use on sorghum and maize plots; 3) measurement of area and production on sorghum and maize plots; 4) consumption expenditures and migration remittances.