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Chapter 3: Getting started forestry VCM project is a viable option. Project developers must take stock of the resources available, determine the costs of the project, and identify the risks and challenges likely to arise. Such questions can be answered by conducting a feasibility assessment, taking account of the local circumstances using, for example, the following criteria. 3.1.1 Site screening A potential forestry VCM project developer should ask the following questions about the area being considered: £ Does the area have a high population density? £ £ £ £ Is the land tenure situation insecure (either de jure or de facto)? Is the area too small to provide food for the land owners through subsistence farming? Is there a recent history of declining agricultural yields due to land degradation and/or soil loss? Is there a lack of cohesion or coordination among community members, making negotiation processes complicated? £ Are education levels unusually low? £ Is there a low rate of employment and few formal job opportunities? 79
Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon markets £ £ £ Is the area subject to ongoing in-migration, driving up pressure on natural resources? Does fuelwood demand for domestic use contribute to pressure on forest ecosystems? Is the community openly opposed to carbon trading and/or specific investors? £ Are there any active land disputes? £ Is there a history of local government corruption? £ Is there a history of illegal logging? On government-owned lands: £ £ Is there a history of encroachment/illegal settlement on public land? Are farmers operating on government land without recognized long-term land-use rights? The more questions to which the answer is “yes”, the more challenging it will be to successfully implement a forestry VCM project. It is important to remember that the determining factor of a VCM project is the generation of carbon credits. While it is all but certain that some of the issues on the checklist above will arise, and indeed help give the project additionality, if a developer has to address too many of them at once the generation of carbon credits may be at risk. The result of the site screening checklist, therefore, may be used to indicate the following course of action: 80
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