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Important point<br />
During the first round, the players calculate<br />
by themselves the socio-economic<br />
and environmental impact of the scenario<br />
(i.e. the land use plan). For this,<br />
note books and calculators are provided.<br />
More information about the parameters<br />
and calculations are available in<br />
Toolbox 2.<br />
Introduction to the<br />
virtual landscape<br />
The 12 villagers selected to serve as VLMC members are first<br />
introduced to a virtual landscape on the game board comprising<br />
100 cells of one hectare each. There are 12 coloured role<br />
play cards: eight of these are red, two are yellow and two are<br />
green. The VLMC members each draw one of these cards in<br />
order to define their particular role as either farmers (villagers)<br />
or district officials during the role play.<br />
• The eight VLMC members who drew the red cards represent<br />
the villagers<br />
• The two VLMC members who drew the yellow cards represent<br />
staff of the Economic Development Division; their<br />
First<br />
round<br />
The aim of the first round is to familiarize the VLMC members<br />
with the game. The land cover/use (agricultural area, forest<br />
area, shrub, plantation, village area, grass land) is represented<br />
on the game board in a virtual landscape of 100 1 ha cells. The<br />
players are asked to allocate land uses to each plot without<br />
modifying its land cover. The land uses associated to each land<br />
cover are summarised in the following table.<br />
Land cover<br />
Agricultural area<br />
Land use<br />
Rotational crop area<br />
Permanent crop area<br />
TOOLBOX 3 ‘PLUP Fiction’ role play<br />
aim is to increase the income generated by the whole vil-<br />
Forest area<br />
Conservation forest<br />
lage as much as possible.<br />
Protection forest<br />
• The two VLMC members who drew the green cards represent<br />
staff of the District Forest and Environment Division;<br />
their aim is to preserve biodiversity and manage carbon<br />
Shrub<br />
Production forest<br />
Shrub<br />
stocks.<br />
Plantation<br />
Plantation<br />
Village area<br />
Village area<br />
Grasslands<br />
Natural grasslands<br />
Improved pasture<br />
The players allocate the agricultural land (the yellow cells on<br />
the virtual landscape) to either rotational crops or permanent<br />
crops, the forest area (the green cells) to conservation, protection<br />
and production forest, and the grasslands to either natural<br />
grassland or improved pasture. They also choose the livestock<br />
zones and management strategy (e.g. free roaming, fences...).<br />
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