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ANNEX 4: TUDY PROTOCOLSMeeting at FORIG, Saturday 19 Nov 05 – Sampling protocolsEric, Lawrence, Charles, Michelle, Kwame1. What factors influence the prevalence of chainsaw milling in/near communities or the presenceof large scale logging and milling near communities?a. Status of the foresti. For example, protected, managed by FC, managed by Community, farmlandii. New innovation are community-owned forests where community holdsresponsibility for management with support of the FC, 2-4 in the Ashanti region,not yet harvestingb. Resource endowment or quality of the foresti. For example, western, central, eastern regionsc. Presence / absence of a large milld. Presence / absence of market to meet local timber requirementse. Attitudes by community members towards the forest resourcei. Level of collaboration between community and managerii. Level of compliance with protection authoritiesiii. Intensity of policing or enforcement of regulationf. Community awareness of their rights in relation to forest resources and experience inaccessing those rightsi. For example, Are they aware of the procedures specified in the SocialAgreement, procedures for making claimsii. Do they have experience making claims, the procedures can be verybureaucratic resulting in not much compensationiii. Are they aware of the permitting process that is in place for felling timber trees?iv. Do they have experience with the permit processv. Have they worked as a group to gain access to timber (e.g., to build a school)?g. Commitment of the Chief (and/or Assemblyman) to manage and protect the forestresourcei. Size of stool and structure of governance, is there a paramount chief that isable to capture revenueh. Commitment of the forestry agents to manage and protect the forest resourcei. FC staff, guards, range supervisor, district officerii. Support from the FC for local enforcement effortsiii. Intensity of policing or enforcement of regulationi. Presence of external threats to the forest resourcei. Migrant farmers clearing forest without rights to forest resources2. Implications for study designa. To get representative communities need to distribute sample sites near protectedforest, as well as FC managed forests, be sure to include sites where distance to largemill varies, where access to local market variesb. Need to include questions that capture e, f, g, and h abovec. Do we include Community managed forests as well? They are still relatively younginnovations and not so representative but may provide insights into conditions thatcould promote sustainability?d. Do we interview representatives from the migrant farmer community? If they havedifferent costs and benefits, and if they are an interesting or significant group, thenmaybe yes?3. Historical context in Ghana
a. In the 1980s, lots of Ghanaians returned to Ghana from overseas where they hadaccumulated capital, set up businesses in Ghana, now play a role in providing capital tosupport chainsaw milling firms, providing chainsaws, . . .4. Study of Chainsaw Milling Operators and Firmsa. Importance stressed of clearly stating the objective – recognise that we need twodifferent types of study here, one directed at the chainsaw milling firms and one that isdone in the field, focused on quantification of operational efficiency and environmentalimpactsi. We want to be able to determine if a change in policy and regulation willinfluence the profit margins of chainsaw millingb. Opportunity to go through the Chainsaw Association to identify a representative samplec. A study was conducted by Eric’s father as part of the ITTO project on Silviculture andEconomics in 2003 (?) that included data collection from a sample of operatorsinvolved in large-scale industrial logging in Kumasi – we could look here to see if thereare estimates of economic variables that we could use in a comparisond. Also Presteman and Laarman in world Forest Resource Management 1989, 4: 111-126that includes a comparison of chainsaw milling with large scale operations in Ecuador,includes useful set of variables related to economic efficiency, technical efficiency, . . .e. TIDD might be useful source of information5. How to determine national production? Sampling of marketsa. Repeated sampling of main markets, for volume and percentage of total volumeavailable sourced from chainsaw milling, sourced from sawmillsb. Number of suppliers this past week?c. How can we determine how December figures relate to those in other months of theyear?i. What is the seasonal variation in production and consumption?ii. Suggestion that a jump in consumption is associated with the period of timewhen family members return home (Sept-Nov)6. What factors influence the cost and benefits and their distribution within chainsaw milling firms?a. Scale (for large scale operations: small, medium, large): based on export volumes;staff strength; number and total area of concessionsb. Scale for chainsaw milling firmsi. number of machinesii. staff strengthiii. production (volume, regularity of production)c. resource availability, resource quality, locationi. resource rich, resource poord. market accessibility is unlikely to be constraint because the market is so hungry fortimbere. consider cropping systems in the locationi. e.g., where there are lots of cocoa farms find resource availablef. political contacts of the manager, entrepreneurial surveyi. how to determine this with an interview?ii. how many fines or how much have you paid in fines during the past twoweeks? Month?iii. have you ever been arrested for your activities?iv. need to triangulate by talking with secondary sources7. Implications for the sampling designa. Ensure that the sample of firms represents the variability in scale and incorporates thevariability in resource quality and resource availability, differences in cropping systemsas it relates to access to treesb. Need to be sure that the interviewing includes questions that reveal the politicalconnectedness of the manager or owner of the firmc. Want to include questions about safety, how do you ensure the safety of the peopleworking in the field?8. How will we be able to compare the above with large scale, conventional logging/milling firms?
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