Afforestation, Participation, Participatory Rural Appraisal
This paper discusses the change in the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme's (AKRSP)'s approach to wasteland development projects. Previously, areas were planted with trees with the participation of locals. However, after afforestation, locals took no further interest in the trees. It was later recognised that local preferences for certain tree species had not been considered, but that AKRSP had decided species on the basis of its own 'professional' advice.