Examples of how to design a questionary to evaluate the impact of a restoration on farmer's opinion?

I think it would be very important first to get information (from your questionnaire) about the demographics of your farmers' sample (age, gender education, economic status, whether or not farming is a primary activity for the farmer, etc.) and then information about their farm (Ha. of cultivated land, Ha uncultivated land, crops grown, livestock) and management (organic/ecological, irrigation, soil fertility, crop protection with or without agrichemicals). Then to measure the impact of a restoration -implementing multi functional hedge rows you may considered: the percent of land that was restored with hedgerows, the purpose of this restoration, the costs involved (money, time, on-farm and off-farm resources) and then the benefits gained (windbreaks, biological control, increased biodiversity, soil/water conservation) and drawbacks (loss of land surface that could have been cultivated and others). These (in my opinion) are/could be main concepts to identify the variables for your questionnaire. After designing the questionnaire you could run a small-scale study and administer your instrument to a reduced sample of farmers in order to verify that your questionnaire is a valid instrument, capable of yielding consistent results. Any program evaluation manual can give you more detailed information about the design and construction of a survey/questionnaire. In my research I used a jury-panel system to identify key concepts for the construction of my questionnaire. Here attached is the paper that although was constructed to evaluate students' preparedness in sustainable agriculture, I think that could be of inspiration to develop the questionnaire you need for your research project.

Olawale Festus Olaniyan

In addition to the detailed suggestion made by Bruno (above), you may wish to check the following document for more information that can be adapted to your case study:

A questionnaire survey of farmers' opinions and actions towards wildlife on farmlands - http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/5980/1/13.pdf#page=177

Best wishes.

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