Table 2. Ranking of driving forces. Access to new agricultural techniques was ranked as the most important driving force in the area, followed by health and local governance. The table also shows the participants’ perception of how these factors will change in the coming decades. This is expressed as percentage of participants assessing the driving forces to become better/more, or worse/less, alternatively who don’t know, in the future. N = 32.
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Rank |
Driving force |
Better/more (%) |
Don’t know (%) |
Worse/less (%) |
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1 |
Access to new agricultural techniques
(agromechanization, RWH) |
100 |
0 |
0 |
|
2 |
Health (HIV, nutrition) |
50 |
34 |
16 |
|
3 |
Local governance (quality of leadership, measures
against drug abuse, environmental protection |
63 |
25 |
12 |
|
4 |
Access to higher education (secondary schools in the
area) |
100 |
0 |
0 |
|
5 |
Work ethics / family values (preserving local culture, and
customs, including traditional systems for environmental protection) |
38 |
50 |
12 |
|
6 |
National economy |
75 |
22 |
3 |
|
7 |
Infrastructure (transport and communication, market
access, energy) |
88 |
9 |
3 |
|
8 |
Access to credit and savings
opportunities |
84 |
13 |
3 |
|
9 |
Approaches for collective action (common language,
methods for participatory work) |
69 |
31 |
0 |
|
10 |
Climate (rainfall amounts, variability) |
9 |
57 |
34 |
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