<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:creator>HarvestStat Africa</dc:creator><dc:description>HarvestStat Africa presents the largest compilation of open-access sub-national crop statistics and time-series across Sub-Saharan Africa. Based on agricultural statistics collated by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, the sub-national crop statistics are standardized and calibrated across changing administrative units to produce consistent and continuous time-series. The dataset includes 574,204 records, primarily spanning from 1980 to 2022, detailing quantity produced (metric tonnes; mt), harvested areas (hectares; ha), and yields (metric tonnes per hectare; mt/ha) for 33 countries and 94 crop types, including key cereals in Sub-Saharan Africa such as wheat, maize, rice, sorghum, barley, millet, and fonio. As an open-source resource, it establishes a precedent for sharing sub-national crop statistics to inform decision-making and modeling efforts.</dc:description><dc:identifier>harveststat-africa</dc:identifier><dc:publisher>Humanitarian Data Exchange</dc:publisher><dc:rights>Public</dc:rights><dc:title>HarvestStat Africa - Harmonized Subnational Crop Statistics for Sub-Saharan Africa</dc:title><dc:type>Datasets</dc:type><dc:coverage>Angola</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Benin</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Burkina Faso</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Burundi</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Cameroon</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Central African Republic</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Chad</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Democratic Republic of the Congo</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Ethiopia</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Ghana</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Guinea</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Kenya</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Lesotho</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Liberia</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Madagascar</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Malawi</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Mali</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Mauritania</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Mozambique</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Niger</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Nigeria</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Rwanda</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Senegal</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Sierra Leone</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Somalia</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>South Africa</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>South Sudan</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Sudan</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Togo</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Uganda</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>United Republic of Tanzania</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Zambia</dc:coverage><dc:coverage>Zimbabwe</dc:coverage><dc:date>1980-01-01 to 2022-12-31</dc:date></oai_dc:dc>