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Rapid Agrobiodiversity Appraisal (RABA)
in the Context of Environmental Service Rewards
STEP 1 :
STEP 2 :
STEP 3 :
STEP 4 :
STEP 5 :
Figure 4. Step-wise approach of RABA tool. The columns represent the parties involved in the process.
RAPID AGROBIODIVERSITY APPRAISAL (RABA)
SELLERS INTERMEDIARIES BUYERS REFERENCES/
OUTPUTS
Locating the area
Mapping the area –
image analysis or
participatory mapping
Secondary data: demographic, outsiders’ perspective
of local commodity, history of an area, governments ’
designation on the landscape (zonation at different
levels), ecological and other biophysical maps,
Issues in the areas and other related data
Stakeholder analysis
Priority concerning biodiversity (e.g. key species, etc.), willingness of local
people to participate in the conservation initiative, identification & inventory of
issues at local level, identification & inventory of societies
Assessments: individual, group, government and landscape
(indigenous knowledge, social, etc.)
Participatory processes of discussion and negotiation
Develop and field-test reward mechanisms, monitoring and evaluation
HOT SPOTS
Conservation
values of an area
Coarse Initial selection
Potential locations
(landscape scale)
Snowball Method
Finding the ‘key
persons”
Perspectives on
future scenario:
economy, social,
biodiversity
Purposive Sampling
Qualitative
biodiversity and
micro-level
resource analysis
Opportunity – YES/NO
initial indicators