8ec92488-feab-4365-b658-a1f985b95d4d e5ca377b-36e1-4ca5-82f9-ac68bda44acc Janina Kleemann jkleemann@uni-bonn.de 2016-02-16T13:27:13 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 Questionnaire with Participants of a Conference in Tamale on Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC) Dynamics, Drivers of LULCC, Trends of Land Use Types/Crop Types, Upper East Region - Ghana 2014-10-08T10:00:00 The questionnaire was conducted in August 6 - 8, 2014, with 7 PhD and MSc participants of the "First International Conference on Enhancing Resilience to Climate and Ecosystem Changes in Semi-arid Africa" in Tamale, Ghana. The questionnaire was based on a survey on Drivers of Land Use and Land Cover Change (LULCC), Trends of Land Use Types/Crop Types in the Upper East Region (Ghana), conducted between March and December 2014 with researchers in Ghana. Janina Kleemann Center for Development Research (ZEF) Junior Researcher + 49 (0)228/731721 Walter-Flex-Straße 3 Bonn North Rhine-Westphalia 53113 Germany jkleemann@uni-bonn.de http://www.zef.de/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Center for Development Research https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=8ec92488-feab-4365-b658-a1f985b95d4d&fname=Survey.PNG large_thumbnail PNG Northern Ghana Upper East Region Western Africa Ghana Region 2006-09-22 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions land cover change crop types land use type driving forces land cover land use land use classification GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 2010-01-13 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet Restricted due to publication purposes. In case of urgent interest please contact the author. e5ca377b-36e1-4ca5-82f9-ac68bda44acc farming -1.59846 0.05498 10.23797 11.1933 2014-08-06 2014-08-08 Intensity of drivers of land use/cover change (LULCC) in the Upper East Region (UER); from no influence to high influence (Likert-scale); asked for following drivers of LULCC: • Farming practice (e.g. slash and burn) • Farming intensity (fallow or permanent crop) • Farming tools (manual, bullock, tractor) • Fertilizer application • Soil quality (e.g. nutrient availability, storage capacity) • Topography (hilltop, slope, valley) • Cropping system (mixed or mono cropping) • Irrigation (dam, river, wells) • Use of trees and wood (firewood, livestock feeding) • Livestock density (livestock unit per hectare) • Livestock type (cow, goat, sheep, fowl) • Bush fires for hunting and grazing • Increasing climate variability • Improved crop variety (hybrids) • Weeds (e.g. striga) • Mining (gold, sand, stone) • Settlements • Infrastructure (roads, hospitals, markets) • Rural household size • Land size available for farming • Money available for farming • Labour available for farming • Gender: male or female farmer (e.g. use rights) • Customary land tenure system (e.g. land security) • Migration • Education • Changes in religious pattern (e.g. importance of sacred forest and ceremonies) • Distance from crop to housing • Distance to markets • Distance to roads • Governmental laws • National agricultural programs (e.g. outgrower scheme) • Market prices for agricultural products • Service by extension officers • Fertilizer subsidies • Foreign agricultural large-scale investments • Credits by family, bank, government or NGO • Science and research • International funding/ development aid Trends in land cover type and crop type under “business as usual” in the Upper East Region; from significant decrease to significant increase(Likert-scale); for following land use types: • Cropland • Grassland/grazing land • Bush savanna • Tree plantations • Bare land • Water bodies • Urban area • Others For following crop types: • Millet • Sorghum • Maize • Soy beans • Groundnuts • Bambara beans • Cowpeas • Cotton • Irrigated rice • Rain-fed rice • Irrigated vegetables • Future crop: Sesame • Others PDF Janina Kleemann jkleemann@uni-bonn.de 2021-02-01T00:00:00 per email https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/file.disclaimer?uuid=8ec92488-feab-4365-b658-a1f985b95d4d&fname=WASCAL_soc_DriversLandUseChange_Ghana-_Upper_East_Region__Tamale_Conf_Aug2014.pdf_.zip&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download WASCAL_soc_DriversLandUseChange_Ghana-_Upper_East_Region__Tamale_Conf_Aug2014.pdf_.zip Questionnaire with closed questions, Likert-scale WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link