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Table 10: kip). Cash income per family, derived from NTFP’s in 1996, per wealth class (1=wealthiest, 5=poorest), in 5 villages on the Nakai plateau (values in Village: Wealth class: 1 2 3 4 5 Khone ken 114,300 123,000 130,300 99,030 Ka-Oy 137,009 156,714 132,320 Nakai Neua 81,000 80,000 60,000 91,200 101,400 Sop Phen 92,950 32,358 24,000 30,000 10,000 Thalang 163,400 10,000 24,000 100,900 Table 11: Income distribution for 1996 among all 191 families in 5 villages on the Nakai Plateau, divided into four income groups. (group A positive net income > 200,000 kip; group B positive net income
5 Traditional use areas and boundaries Where do villagers collect their NTFP’s from? We used three data collection methods to answer this question: land-use type ranking, forest block ranking and sketch mapping. In addition, we did rapid forest inventories in each village (see Annex 5). In general villagers discern main land use types such as dry dipterocarp and evergreen forests, paddy fields and upland rice/fallow fields , streams and ponds etc. Within the evergreen forest, they discern many forest blocks, usually delineated by streams “huay” or other landscape features such as roads or rocks. Firstly we asked villagers to define and rank main land-use types where NTFP’s are collected. (see table 12). Interestingly, an overall 60 % of NTFP’s was classified as collected from streams, ponds, paddy fields, grass fields, and fallwo fields which are not strictly forest areas. These areas are likely to be mostly situated within the inundation zone. Only 25 % was said to be derived for the evergreen forest and mountains. The proposed resettlement area falls under what villagers would call “pa kok”. Only 16 % of all NTFP’s are said to be derived from this area. It is also remarkable that little difference in opinion was found between groups of men and women on this issue. Table 12: Collection areas for NTFP’s, ranked according to relative importance, by villagers in 3 villages on the Nakai Plateau, March 1997. Village Nakai Sopphene Thalang All Landtype men/women men women men women men women men women overall dong/pou evergreen forest/mountains 15% 29% 25% 25% 32% 22% 24% 25% 25% kok dry dipterocarp/pine forests 25% 13% 14% 20% 8% 16% 15% 16% 16% palao fallow regrowth 20% 26% 14% 15% 8% 18% 14% 20% 17% houay/nong streams/ponds 25% 22% 38% 30% 33% 33% 32% 28% 30% thong/naa grassfields/paddy fields 15% 10% 10% 10% 20% 12% 15% 11% 13% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% 100% Secondly, we would ask villagers to specifically list and rank the evergreen forest areas as to their importance for collecting NTFP’s (see Annex 1). We found that villagers are able to identify forest blocks and main products collected per block. Villagers estimates of yield potential for all blocks make an interesting comparison with the estimated total production per village, calculated from the individual family survey data (see table 13). In some cases, both estimates are remarkably close, e.g. in Ban Khone ken, Ban Ka-oy, in others they are very different, e.g. Ban Thalang, which begs the question which of the two estimates is closest to the truth. Unfortunately, there was no opportunity to feed back these differences to the villagers involved. For now we can only conclude that villagers can make consistent estimates of NTFP’s but the data require back-checking and may in some cases underestimate the real harvest of NTFP’s. Forest block ranking is potentially a powerful and quick tool, but it should be used with caution. Thirdly, we asked villagers could usually draw a map of their resource use area and name various landscape elements and forest blocks (see Annex 6).These area’s can more or less be recognised on the topographical maps. It would take a special survey to define the exact boundaries of each block and its size properly. Such an exercise could not be undertaken within the limited time available for this study. More intensive mapping should be done using
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