Freelist length of forage resources obtained from freelist data by local agro-pastoralists in Ghana and Burkina Faso, 2012-2013

The free list data was generated from ethnobotanical interviews which were carried out in northern Ghana and southern-central Burkina Faso. This dataset only contains 450 interviews from 15 villages (seven in Ghana and eight in Burkina Faso) to obtain a balanced dataset for further statistical analysis.

Date (Publication): 2017-01-27

Presentation form: Digital table

Presentation form: Digital document

Status: Completed

Originator

Center for Development Research, Department C: Ecology and Natural Resources Management, University of Bonn - John-Baptist S. N. Naah ( Senior Scientist/Postdoc researcher )

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

food production (agriculture)
livestock farming
livestock

Theme

Region

Africa
Western Africa
Ghana
Burkina Faso

Place

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Use constraints: License

Other constraints: This work is licensed under Creative Commons: Attribution-Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Citation:

Naah, John-Baptist S. N. (2017): Freelist length of forage resources obtained from freelist data by local agro-pastoralists in Ghana and Burkina Faso, 2012-2013.

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Metadata language: English

Topic category

Farming

Begin date: 2012-01-01

End date: 2013-12-31

Supplemental Information: Variables (# = absoulte numbers) (code list)

Resp_code =representing coded informants

Climatic_Zone=1=Zone1;2=Zone2;3=Zone3.

Ethnicity=1=Dagbani;2=Gurunsi;3=Mossi

Village

Gender=0=Female;1=Male

Age

Age_class=3=Older adults;2=middle-aged adults;1=young adults.

Aridity_index = International Classification

Aridity_class=4=Humid;3=Dry sub-humid;2=moist semi-arid;1=dry semi-arid

Freelist_length#

Herbaceous#

Woody#

Crops#

Education=0=No formal education;1=basic education;2=secondary/tertiary education

Status=1=migrant;2=native

People#

Religion=1=Christian;2=Muslim;3=Traditionalist;4=Atheist

Distribution format

Comma Separated Values (CSV) ( nn )
PDF ( nn )

Distributor

Distributor

WASCAL -

OnLine resource: WSC_agr_freelist-data_ghana-burkina-faso_2012-13.csv.csv ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Survey data

OnLine resource: Structured_PhD_questionnaire-_Finalversion-1.pdf ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )
Survey Questionnaire

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Statement: Regarding the data quality, screening work has been done on the data and quality is very high. Data is used in the analyses and write up of a manuscript for publication.