Focus on People and Trees: a guide to designing and conducting community baseline studies for community forestry.
The aim of this publication is as a guide for "designing, conducting and presenting community baseline studies" for community forestry activites. The initial section deals with definitions of community forestry and baseline surveys. The second illustrates fourteen stages in the survey process. The emphasis is on informal techniques, and many of the information that it is useful to cover are discussed, to act as a checklist, for example environmental conditions, tenure and social organisation as well as the knowledge management and culture of trees and woodlands.