Version finale du questionnaire

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Le questionnaire a été conçu en langue française. Il n'existe pas pour l'instant de traduction en anglais.


The final questionnaire included 14 different sections on various aspects of farmers’ perceptions of their crops (Table 1).The questionnaire was illustrated with many photographs and drawings of the crops and their reproductive organs. When available, real inflorescences, flowers, seednuts and other parts of the plants were also shown to farmers during the interviews. Farmers were asked to explain the function of the crop’s organs as illustrated in the picture plates or shown in real.

Sections of the REPROCROP questionnaire.
Section number

Description
1
A
Recognition of the drawings of the five concerned crops (banana, cassava, cocoa, coconut, and oil palm); respondent’s choice of two crops on which the survey would focus and reasons of these choices.
2
B
Four main crops cultivated; number of cultivated species in the field; time spent farming. Only for each of the two selected crops: agricultural problems encountered, number of varieties known and cultivated; estimated number of varieties existing in the locality (village), in the country and worldwide; presumed origin of these crops. Reasons for farmers’ choices and opinions.
3
C
How do plants reproduce? Are there different ways to explain how plants reproduce? Do all crops reproduce the same way? From whom and how did you obtain the knowledge regarding plant reproduction?
4
D
Concept of maternity and paternity in plants. Only for each of the two crops selected by farmers; and applied to whole plants and several organs: do plants have: no mother and no father; a father and a mother; a mother but no father; a father but no mother; one father and more than one mother; one mother and more than one father; mother and father are the same individual; more than one mother and more than one father; varying number of parents; I don’t know; and other. (with reasons for farmers’ opinions).
5
E
Concept of gender (female or male) applied to plants. Only for each of the two crops selected by farmers; and applied to whole plants and several organs: is the plant: female or male; both female and male; only female; only male; some female and others male; can move from female to male or the reverse during their life; I don’t know; and other. (with reasons for farmers’ opinions).
6
F
Data regarding the interviewee: contact, nationality, matrimonial status, ethnic group, religion, schooling etc. Data regarding the survey: have you, or somebody from your family already been submitted to similar interviews?
7
G
Additional notes for sections 1 to 6.
8
H
Gender and age farmers’ perceptions of agricultural roles. Only on the first crop chosen by farmers, with possible responses: mainly by women; mainly by men; by both women and men, it varies, and I don’t know. Questions applied to: preference for the crop; management of seednuts; plantation; maintenance; harvest; local processing and commercialization.
9
I
Questions regarding the planting material. Only on the first crop chosen by farmers: availability; origin; selling, social exchanges and gifts; easiness of conservation; true-to-type reproduction.
10
J
Questions linked to the history of the crop. Only for the first chosen crop: cultivated or not; do other plants resemble or are of the same family as this crop? Who created the different varieties? etc.
11
K
Questions   linked to agriculture practices and yields. Only for the first chosen crop: levels of crop’s yields, manual labour, financial investment and profitability; earliness and yield stability; susceptibility to pests and diseases; frequency of harvests, consumption and sales.
12
L
Questions linked to social relationships related to the first cited crop: ownership, frequency of thefts, use to delineate land; related taboos; medicinal, poisoning and religious uses, special uses for first harvest, etc.
13
M
Subjective perception of the first crop chosen by farmers: palatable, nourishing, strength and feature of the smell, beauty, strangeness, ritual, dangerousness, etc.
14
N
Additional notes for sections 8 to 13.