This file was generated on 2024-07-25 by Niklas Möhring


A GENERAL INFORMATION

1. Title of the dataset: Dataset on the adoption of organic agriculture

2. Brief description of the research project and its aims: The here presented dataset provides information on peer-reviewed articles on organic adoption, retrieved through a systematic literature review of 18129 articles, resulting in 120 target studies. It provides information on i) the article, ii) characteristics of the production system, iii) methods used, iv) quality criteria of the article,  and v) types of recommendations given by authors for scaling up organic farming.

3. Author Information
	A. Investigator Contact Information
		Name: Niklas Möhring
		Institution: University of Bonn
		Address: Meckenheimer Allee 174, Bonn
		Email: mohring@uni-bonn.de

	B. Project Supervisor (Principal Investigator) Contact Information
		Name: Niklas Möhring
		Institution: University of Bonn
		Address: Meckenheimer Allee 174, Bonn
		Email: mohring@uni-bonn.de

	C. In case of questions related to this dataset, please contact:
		Name: Niklas Möhring
		Institution: University of Bonn
		Address: Meckenheimer Allee 174, Bonn
		Email: mohring@uni-bonn.de

4. Date of data collection <approximate date: 2022-09-01

5. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data: None

6. Language of the dataset:English

7. Geographic location of data collection : NA



B DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

1. File List: 


* Codebook data

"Dataset_on_the_adoption_of_organic_agriculture_codebook.csv" --> Codebook for the dataset

* Data

"Dataset_on_the_adoption_of_organic_agriculture.csv" --> Dataset

2. Are there multiple versions of the dataset? no


3. Relationship between files: NA 

4. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: NA



C SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION

1. Was data derived from another source? yes: Systematic literature review of peer-reviewd publications

2. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: CC-BY 4.0

3. Links to publications that cite or use the data: Möhring, N., Muller, A., Schaub, S. (2024) Farmers’ adoption of organic agriculture - a systematic global literature review. European review of Agricultural Economics (In Press).

4. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data : NA 

5. Links/relationships to ancillary datasets : NA 



D METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION

1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: 
 Systematic literaure review - see Möhring, N., Muller, A., Schaub, S. (2024) Farmers’ adoption of organic agriculture - a systematic global literature review. European review of Agricultural Economics (In Press).

2. Methods for processing the data: 
See above

3. Instrument- and/or software-specific information needed to interpret the data: 
NA

4. People involved in sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: 

Niklas Möhring (University of Bonn), Adrian Müller (FiBL Switzerland), Sergei Schaub (Agroscope Switzerland)

5. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: 

See above - Möhring, N., Muller, A., Schaub, S. (2024) Farmers’ adoption of organic agriculture - a systematic global literature review. European review of Agricultural Economics (In Press).


6. Standards and calibration information : NA

7. Environmental/experimental conditions : NA



E DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: Dataset_on_the_adoption_of_organic_agriculture.csv



1. Variable list including full names and definitions (please spell out abbreviated words) of column headings for tabular data: 

Definition of variables can be found in Dataset_on_the_adoption_of_organic_agriculture_codebook.csv

2. Units of measurement used:

See above

3. Missing data codes/symbols: 

NA

4. Specialized formats or other abbreviations used: 

NA