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IMPACT-ASSESSMENT-SURVEYS

High-Value Agriculture Project in Hill and Mountain Areas, IFAD Impact Assessment Surveys, 2018

Nepal, 2018
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NPL_2018_HVAP-IIAS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS
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International Fund for Agricultural Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Land Management and Cooperatives, Lattanzio Monitoring and Evaluation, Italy, Full Bright Consultancy, Nepal
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  • Study Description
  • Data Dictionary
  • Downloads
  • Get Microdata
  • Identification
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data Access
  • Disclaimer and copyrights
  • Metadata production
  • Identification

    Survey ID number

    NPL_2018_HVAP-IIAS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS

    Title

    High-Value Agriculture Project in Hill and Mountain Areas, IFAD Impact Assessment Surveys, 2018

    Country
    Name Country code
    Nepal NPL
    Study type

    Agricultural Survey [ag/oth]

    Abstract

    The primary objective of the High-Value Agriculture Project in Hill and Mountain Areas (HVAP) was to reduce rural poverty and improve food security through enhanced value chains for high-value agricultural commodities in the hill and mountainous areas of Nepal. The project employed a unique approach bringing different actors of the value chain together; smallholder producers were linked with input suppliers, traders, technical service providers, and financial institutions. The project also provided business literacy training and helped strengthen production and marketing by forming farmer's cooperatives or groups, collectively called producer organizations (POs), technical support for household dairy production and developing milk-marketing chains.

    The project covers seven hill and mountainous districts in Karnali province and identifies seven agricultural commodities as high value commodities in this area: apple, ginger, vegetable seeds, off-season vegetables, turmeric, timur (Sichuan pepper), and goat. The project supported smallholder farmers by strengthening their access to input markets, output markets, and service markets as well as their skills and capacity to produce market-oriented high value agricultural commodities.

    For more information, please click on the following link: https://www.ifad.org/en/web/knowledge/-/publication/impact-assessment-high-value-agriculture-project-in-hill-and-mountain-areas.

    Kind of Data

    Sample survey data [ssd]

    Unit of Analysis

    Households

    Scope

    Notes

    The subjects covered by the survey are the following:

    • Socio-demographic characteristics
    • Crop production
    • Livestock production
    • Other sources of income
    • Dietary status
    • Household decision making.

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage

    Seven districts from Mid-Western Development Region (Karnali province in the newly adopted system) of Nepal.

    Universe

    Smallholder dairy farmers

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    International Fund for Agricultural Development United Nations
    Ministry of Agriculture, Land Management and Cooperatives
    Lattanzio Monitoring and Evaluation, Italy Lattanzio Monitoring and Evaluation
    Full Bright Consultancy, Nepal Full Bright Consultancy
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    International Fund for Agricultural Development Funding
    Netherlands Development Organisation Funding
    Government of Nepal Funding

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure

    HVAP interventions cover seven districts from Mid-Western Development Region (Karnali province in the newly adopted system). The project works with producer organizations (POs) and a total of pre-existing 456 POs (which consist of groups and cooperatives) in 144 village development committee (VDCs) are covered. HVAP covers a total of 144 VDCs, 456 POs, and 15,965 households. The total sample selected for the impact assessment consists of 3,028 households (1,504 treatment and 1,524 control households) in 235 POs or clusters (117 treatment POs and 118 control POs). The distribution of the sample size is proportional to the number of project beneficiaries in each district.

    Weighting

    No weighting.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires

    The impact assessment design adopts a mixed-method approach to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. Quantitative surveys consist of two surveys: one for collecting data at the household level and the other for collecting data at the PO level.
    The quantitative (both at the household level and at the PO level) and qualitative data in this impact assessment were collected between May and July 2018. The quantitative surveys collect extensive information about the twelve-month period preceding the timing of the survey.

    In particular, the survey collects extensive detailed about agricultural production (both crop and livestock production) from the most recent agricultural production cycle, which covers two main seasons namely the wet season (around May to October 2017) and the dry season (around November 2017 to April 2018). The household survey questionnaire consists of questions related to socio-economic status, agricultural and livestock production, other sources of income, dietary status, and household decision making. The PO survey questionnaire focuses mainly on indicators related to access to services and infrastructures, communal 20 groups, agricultural and livestock production, commodity prices, and economic activities.

    Note: some variables may have missing labels. Please, refer to the questionnaire for more details.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2018-05 2018-07
    Mode of data collection
    • Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

    Data Access

    Confidentiality
    Is signing of a confidentiality declaration required? Confidentiality declaration text
    yes The users shall not take any action with the purpose of identifying any individual entity (i.e. person, household, enterprise, etc.) in the micro dataset(s). If such a disclosure is made inadvertently, no use will be made of the information, and it will be reported immediately to FAO
    Access conditions

    Micro datasets disseminated by FAO shall only be allowed for research and statistical purposes. Any user which requests access working for a commercial company will not be granted access to any micro dataset regardless of their specified purpose. Users requesting access to any datasets must agree to the following minimal conditions:

    • The micro dataset will only be used for statistical and/or research purposes;
    • Any results derived from the micro dataset will be used solely for reporting aggregated information, and not for any specific individual entities or data subjects;
    • The users shall not take any action with the purpose of identifying any individual entity (i.e. person, household, enterprise, etc.) in the micro dataset(s). If such a disclosure is made inadvertently, no use will be made of the information, and it will be reported immediately to FAO;
    • The micro dataset cannot be re-disseminated by users or shared with anyone other than the individuals that are granted access to the micro dataset by FAO.
    Citation requirements

    The use of the dataset should be referenced in any publication, using the following citation:

    International Fund for Agricultural Development. High-Value Agriculture Project in Hill and Mountain Areas, IFAD Impact Assessment Surveys, Nepal, 2018. Dataset downloaded from https://microdata.fao.org.

    Disclaimer and copyrights

    Disclaimer

    The user of the data acknowledges that the original collector of the data, the authorized distributor of the data, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses

    Metadata production

    DDI Document ID

    DDI_NPL_2018_HVAP-IIAS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_FAO

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    Office of Chief Statistician Food and Agriculture Organization Metadata producer

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version

    NPL_2018_HVAP-IIAS_v01_EN_M_v01_A_OCS_v01

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