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• 1 - not important = less than 15%
• 0 – non existent = 0%
Not all the cells need to be filled, but at least all the ones with a value above 2 should be
filled. Likewise, all cells in the column “forest” should be filled to make sure that the
importance of the forest is carefully evaluated. Depending on the circumstances, the
column “forest” can be split in two or not. If the group interviewed lives in the middle of
the Forest Management Unit under evaluation, then everything they derive from the
forest is likely to be from the FMU (unless they have migratory or hunting/ foraging
patterns that go beyond the FMU’s borders). If the community is near the border of the
FMU or often moves beyond its borders, then it may be necessary to clarify which
percentage of their resources they draw from the FMU and which ones from another
forest.
It is important to realize that it is not necessary to ask the communities for percentages.
If they are ready to give such percentages, they can be used to classify the importance
of each resource in the categories 0 to 4 above. However, it should be remembered that
communities are not used to keeping quantified records of their needs and resource
uses, so percentage given during interviews can be very misleading. Rather than trying
to obtain figures, which would require months of data collecting, it is recommended to
base the identification of fundamental resources on the qualitative perception of the
people, which will be a more adequate indicator.
The levels 0 to 4 above can easily be obtained during individual or group discussions. In
ordinary Indonesian language, the following could be used by farmers to qualify the
importance of a source to fulfill a particular need, for example the following questions
can be asked:
For example, the following questions can be used to qualify the different levels:
“Do you get all your fruits from the forests or are there other sources?” if the answer
is “all” then the level is 4 for the forest in the line “fruits”
If there are other sources, like for example a garden, then the question can be asked as
such:
“Do you get more fruits from the forest or from the garden?” if the answer is “more
from the forest”, then the level is 3
If the answer is “more from the garden” then the following question can be asked:
“Do you get a significant portion of fruits from the forest or just very little, seldom, and
not in an important way?” If the answer is “significant, rather important” (lumayan,
cukup penting) then the answer is 2, if the answer is “marginal, occasional, or not
important” (sedikit sekali, jarang, tidak penting) then the answer is 1.
Some resources may become critical only at certain times of the year, or during crop
failures, as replacement. For example, tubers collected in the forest may replace rice
during shortages between two seasons. If the community qualifies a certain forest
resource as marginal, always check that this applies all year long and all the time, for
example by asking “are there certain times when this becomes more important?” If the
answer is yes, then the importance of the resource should be moved to 2 (significant)
and if there is no replacement during that period, it is an HCV.
If there are no fruits at all from the forest then obviously the level is 0.
For each need, if the forest is considered as “not important” or “non existent” (value 0 or
1) in fulfilling it, then it is not fundamental and will not be qualified as an HCV.