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Freelist of conservation measures as put forward by local agro-pastoralists in both northern Ghana and southern-central Burkina Faso, 2013

This study revealed that local agro-pastoralists were quite aware of their own actions that could influence the changing abundance of the natural forage resources. Moreover, the local informants suggested means through which their rich LEK in the traditional management and regulation of plant resources including forage plants could be applied. This is necessary for them to tackle negative effects of the ecological drivers to changing forage plants communities especially crops. One of the topmost suggestions made by local agro-pastoralists was that cutting down of trees for charcoal production and fuel wood should be stopped, while afforestation of useful trees should be encouraged by fellow farmers to increase the frequency of rainfall incidences and increase soil fertility.

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Date (Publication)
2017-01-27
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Completed
Author
  - John-Baptist S. N. Naah ( )
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GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
  • food production (agriculture)
  • livestock farming
  • livestock
Region
  • Africa
  • Western Africa
  • Ghana
  • Burkina Faso
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Naah, J.-B. S. N. (2017): Freelist of conservation measures as put forward by local agro-pastoralists in both northern Ghana and southern-central Burkina Faso, 2013

https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/?uuid=c5b2ca10-7352-489e-bdfb-c79fa99de8d7

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English
Topic category
  • Farming
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Begin date
2012-01-01
End date
2013-12-31
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Conversation measures

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  • Comma Separated Values (CSV) ( nn )

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Author
  - John-Baptist S. N. Naah
Planned available datetime
2018-12-31
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WSC_agr_freelist-way-forward_ghana-burkina-faso_2012-13.csv.csv ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

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Structured_PhD_questionnaire-_Finalversion-3.pdf ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

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To assess the cultural importance/cognitive salience index of conservation measures provided by local agro-pastoralists, their answers are organized into Anthropac format(freelist). I employed the ANTHROPAC 1.0 statistical software developed by Borgatti (1996). Beneath is an explanation of the freelist analysis. According to Sutrop 2001, cognitive salience index (CSI) is calculated using the formular: CSI = F/[N*mP]. Thus, frequency of conservation measures cited (F) and the mean position (mP) and sample size (N) for informants. The higher the CSI the higher the cultural importance (salience) of a forage species to the local informants (Thompson and Juan 2006). The CSI ranges from zero to one.
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Metadata language
English
Character set
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Parent identifier
Towards an understanding and harnessing of local ecological knowledge of forage resources for sustainable rangeland management in West Africa’s Sudanian Savannas - Dissertation 2017 1f87bacd-2dfa-4113-910b-c5b027e86120
Date stamp
2019-03-07T14:53:54
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Author
  - John-Baptist S.N. Naah ( Senior Scientist )
 
 

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