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relational database using CAQDAS, a computer-assisted qualitative data analysis
software package (QSR 1997).
In the case of Bangladesh, the information was coded
for local Bengali words (e.g.
bele, balu for ‘sandy’). The use of a database provides a
tool by which the original scripts of farmers’ interviews can be searched, by natural as
well as social scientists.
Uganda and the Republic of Tanzania
On a research basis, an attempt was made to compare surveys of land resources, by
soil scientists, and of local knowledge, by social scientists.
The work was carried out
at sites in Uganda and Tanzania (Payton et al. 2003). In order to keep the respective
assessments independent, the two groups deliberately refrained from exchanging
information. Comparing mapped areas as surveyed by soil surveyors with those
obtained by farmers’ knowledge, the correspondence was fair for low-catena and
valley-floor soils, but showed a poor correspondence with respect to differentiation of
the upper and mid-catenary areas.
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