Fig 1.
A-Fire frequency gradient (colour gradient), and selected study districts, B.- Land use map of study area for 2017. A–Map was created from fire count data (2013 to 2017) from ERORIC-AFIS under a CC BY license, with permission from EORIC, Ghana, original copyright (2017). B—Land use map—Republished from [CERSGIS-SERVIR] under a CC BY license, with permission from SERVIR, original copyright (2017).
Fig 2.
Selection of communities and households for the survey.
Table 1.
Fire count from 2013–2017 (November to April).
Table 2.
Gender, age and educational distribution of respondents.
Table 3.
Multiple regression coefficients for the relationships between fire use practices and activities with some socio-demographic variables.
Table 4.
Respondents’ frequency of fire use for activities across the selected districts.
Table 5.
Respondents’ practice of fire control in socio-cultural fire use practices across the fire frequency districts.
Table 6.
Respondents’ perceptions of the importance of fire regimes across the six fire districts.
Fig 3.
A—Respondents’ opinions on A—Positive effect of fire and B—Negative effects of fire on the environment.