Baseline

Village Survey

Kongoussi (Burkina Faso)

•	10 communities
•	422 participants
•	392 forms (stage of poverty, settlement form, forest form, product form, association form)

Cassou (Burkina Faso)

•	18 communities
•	606 participants
•	718 forms (stage of poverty, settlement form, forest form, product form, association form)

Walembelle (Ghana)

•	18 communities
•	572 participants
•	666 forms (stage of poverty, settlement form, forest form, product form, association form)

Household Survey

Kongoussi (Burkina Faso)

•	10 communities
•	300 households
•	300 forms (sentinel landscape household module)

Cassou (Burkina Faso)

•	10 communities
•	300 households
•	300 forms (sentinel landscape household module)

Walembelle (Ghana)

•	10 communities
•	300 households
•	300 forms (sentinel landscape household module)

Land Degradation and Surveillance Framework (LDSF)

Two sites sampled:

•	Kongoussi (Burkina Faso)
•	Cassou (Burkina Faso)

Two more to be sampled:

•	Walembelle (Ghana)
•	Bawku (Ghana)

Land degradation and surveillance framework (LDSF) ground sampling hierarchy:

LDSF ground sampling measurements:

Land-use history and land cover

•	Composite soil samples
•	Vegetation description
•	Biophysical constraints measurement
•	Erosion prevalence
•	Above-ground biodiversity
•	Woody cover and distribution