About the Authors

Paul Richards

Contributed equally to this work with: Paul Richards, Esther Mokuwa, Pleun Welmers

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

paul.richards1945@gmail.com

Affiliation Directorate of Research and Planning, Njala University, Makonde, Sierra Leone

Esther Mokuwa

Contributed equally to this work with: Paul Richards, Esther Mokuwa, Pleun Welmers

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Development Economics group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Pleun Welmers

Contributed equally to this work with: Paul Richards, Esther Mokuwa, Pleun Welmers

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Knowledge, Technology and Innovation group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Harro Maat

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Knowledge, Technology and Innovation group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

Ulrike Beisel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.