Subject area	Agricultural sciences
More specific subject area	Decision making and agricultural production in smallholder farms
Type of data	Categorical, string and numeric variables
How data was acquired	Intra-household surveys through face to face interviews were conducted using a structured questionnaire.
Data format	STATA (dta) files and CSV files in raw format.
Experimental factors
Experimental features
Data source location	Kilolo and Mbarali districts in the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) and Nwoya district in the Acholi sub-region in Northern Uganda
Data accessibility	The data accompanying this article can be found online at:https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/0ZEXKC