Medenou, C.M.E.H. et al, 2025: Co-design of sustainability assessment indicators for sheep farming in West Africa: a SWOT analysis approach

The SWOT database and related metadata file provide the research details of a participatory study on locally relevant sustainability indicators for sheep farming in urban and peri-urban southern Benin. A survey of 100 farmers across three farming systems collected information on sheep fattening operations. Responses were analyzed through structural topic modeling to extract key topics of farm management and perfornmance. From the responses, 27 indicators were developed (15 economic, 4 environmental, 8 social), reflecting strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in the sector. This database and its associated metadata and supplementary file have been uploaded to meet the requirements of the target journal Animal - Open Space.