Abstract:
The data described in this article are related to drought occurrence in
inland valley sand farmers adaptation strategies.The data were col-
lected in 300 inland valleys distributed in 14 regions of Wes tAfrica.
The data were collected in two phases. In the first phase,300 inland
valleys were identified in14 regions and the irlocations weredeter-
minedwithhandheldGPSdevices.Questionnairesandinformal
interviewswereadministeredtoinlandvalleysuserstocollectdata
on physicalandsocio-economiccharacteristics,hydrology,farmers
experiencewithdroughtaffectingriceproductionininlandvalleys
andadaptationstrategies.Inthesecondphase,thelocationsofthe
inlandvalleyswereimportedinaGISenvironmentandwereusedto
extractadditionalparametersonsoilcharacteristicsandwater
demandfromtheShuttleRadarTopographyMission(SRTM),Africa
Soil InformationService(africasoils.net)andPOWERdatabase(http://power.larc.nasa.gov).Intotal,thedatasetcontains41variablesdivi-
ded intoseventhemes:farmers’ experiencewithdrought,adaptive
managementofricefarmerstodrought,physica lcharacteristics,
hydrology,managementpractices,socio-economiccharacteristics
and weatherdataofinlandvalleys.
