Market Data
A large number of market variables are needed to support the full range and depth of economic evaluation performed by HarvestChoice. These include; production (area, yield) and consumption (per capita) of smallholder crops, prices received by producers and paid by consumers, response of production and consumption to price changes (price elasticities), degree of smallholder participation in inputs and output markets, and the usuallycountry-specific policies that shape production, consumption, trade, and market incentives. Ideally, this data is needed both over time and at sub-national levels of disaggregation.
Many important national scale market data components are generally available from FAO’s FAOSTAT database 
, but that database has been offline during much of 2007 and 2008 as a comprehensive review of FAO’s statistical data strategy and on-line products is underway. This has hampered HarvestChoice’s compilation of national data underpinning its analytical work (for example, many data series end at 2005).
A hallmark of HarvestChoice, however, is the effort being made to build new sub-national datasets that provide much richer insights into the relationship between the poor, especially poor rural households, and crops and cropping systems. This has involved two major data efforts utilizing nationally representative census and survey data; the first analyzing household expenditure surveys (for household attributes and consumption), and the second analyzing data from agricultural production surveys (noting that in a limited number of cases both household consumption and production data have been gathered in the same survey).
At present we provide a tool to query and access a subset of national market data (e.g, area, yield, and productin quantity) and the Value of Production indicators generated and used by HarvestChoice.
Crop Production Reporting Tool
