Research Article
Participatory Forest Carbon Assessment and REDD+: Learning from Tanzania
Table 4
Scoring and ranking of the importance of VLFR in studied three villages.
| | Importance of forest | Mihumo | Ngongowele | Ngunja | | Score | Rank | Score | Rank | Score | Rank | | M | W | A | | M | W | A | | M | W | A | |
| | Source of timber | 10 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 3 | | Building materials | 8 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 4 | | Beekeeping | 8 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 2 | | Carbon sequestration | 10 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 1 | | Source of fuel wood | 4 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | | Traditional medicine | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | | Source of food (ming’oko and angadi) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
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M: Men, W: women and A: Average.
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