Rapid rural appraisal for social forestry in a Philippine community
1985
Olofson, H. (University of San Carlos, Cebu City (Philippines). Dept. of Anthropology)
An intermediate methodology is demonstrated for getting to know a farming system in a migrant Tagalog community, where an academic action research project is underway to help the inhabitants meet their basic needs in fuelwood, fodder, and soil conservation through the integration of trees into family farms. As a partial description of the system emerges, the paper stresses, among others, the following points: (1) the use of flexible, rapid rural appraisal techniques as learning tools to discover areas needing further understanding; (2) the strategy of keying research and development to the individual characteristics of farmers parcels and not confusing the levels of farm-holding and field; (3) the importance of exploring indigenous ecological awareness, indigenous technology, and management adjustment of micro-environmental variation, as bases for development; and (4) the appreciation of individual farmer circumstances as adding a level of complexity to development efforts
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