c5b2ca10-7352-489e-bdfb-c79fa99de8d7 1f87bacd-2dfa-4113-910b-c5b027e86120 John-Baptist S.N. Naah Senior Scientist jeanlebaptist@yahoo.co.uk 2019-03-07T14:53:54 ISO 19115:2003/19139 1.0 Freelist of conservation measures as put forward by local agro-pastoralists in both northern Ghana and southern-central Burkina Faso, 2013 2017-01-27 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. John-Baptist S. N. Naah jeanlebaptist@yahoo.co.uk WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/resources.get?uuid=2e038433-ce78-4509-8e05-ca33c02dcd07&fname=Survey.PNG large_thumbnail PNG food production (agriculture) livestock farming livestock GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 2010-01-13 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet Africa Western Africa Ghana Burkina Faso Region 2006-09-22 geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions The data is licensed under: Open Database License (ODbL) http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/ Citation: 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 farming -2.8124969453365307 0.7031280541740902 7.9431805528378 12.954595781645024 2012-01-01 2013-12-31 Variables: Code of interviewees Conversation measures Comma Separated Values (CSV) nn John-Baptist S. N. Naah 2018-12-31 Contact distributor by email to get the permission for accessing the data (resource) https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/file.disclaimer?uuid=c5b2ca10-7352-489e-bdfb-c79fa99de8d7&fname=WSC_agr_freelist-way-forward_ghana-burkina-faso_2012-13.csv.csv&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download WSC_agr_freelist-way-forward_ghana-burkina-faso_2012-13.csv.csv Survey data https://wascal-dataportal.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/file.disclaimer?uuid=c5b2ca10-7352-489e-bdfb-c79fa99de8d7&fname=Structured_PhD_questionnaire-_Finalversion-3.pdf&access=private WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Structured_PhD_questionnaire-_Finalversion-3.pdf Survey questionnaire 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.