Use patterns, use values and management of Afzelia africana Sm. in Burkina Faso: implications for species domestication
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Use patterns, use values and management of Afzelia africana Sm. in Burkina Faso: implications for species domestication and sustainable conservation Larba Hubert Balima1,2* , Blandine Marie Ivette Nacoulma2, Marius Rodrigue Mensah Ekué3, François N’Guessan Kouamé1 and Adjima Thiombiano2
Abstract Background: The lack of literature on the interactions between indigenous people and the valuable agroforestry trees hinder the promotion of sustainable management of plant resources in West African Sahel. This study aimed at assessing local uses and management of Afzelia africana Sm. in Burkina Faso, as a prerequisite to address issues of domestication and sustainable conservation. Methods: One thousand forty-four peoples of seven dominant ethnic groups were questioned in 11 villages through 221 semi-structured focus group interviews. The surveys encompassed several rural communities living around six protected areas along the species distribution range. Questions refer mainly to vernacular names of A. africana, locals’ motivations to conserve the species, the uses, management practices and local ecological knowledge on the species. Citation frequency was calculated for each response item of each questionnaire section to obtain quantitative data. The quantitative data were then submitted to comparison tests and multivariate statistics in R program. (Continued on next page)
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) Graduate Research Program on Climate Change and Biodiversity, Unité de Formation et de Recherche Biosciences, Université Félix Houphoüet Boigny, BP 165, Abidjan 31, Côte d’Ivoire 2 Department of Plant Biology and Physiology, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Ecology, University Ouaga I Pr. Joseph Ki-Zerbo, 03 Box 7021, Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
Balima et al. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2018) 14:23
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Results: A. africana is a locally well-known tree described as a refuge of invisible spirits. Due to this mystery and its multipurpose uses, A. africana is conserved within the agroforestry systems. The species is widely and mostly used as fodder (87.55%), drugs (75.93%), fetish or sanctuary (70.95%), food (41.49%), and raw material for carpentry (36. 19%) and construction (7.05%)
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