Table 2. Key characteristics of fuzzy cognitive map diagrams and matrices.

Characteristic Livelihood type Cattle based Crop-cattle based Non-farm based Number of variables 19 21 15 Number of connections 42 51 38 Sum of all positive connections 26 35 27 Sum of all negative connections 22 21 14 Density† 0.12 0.13 0.18

†Density is the number of connections in the matrix divided by the maximum number of connections possible (Van Vliet et al. 2010).