Yonika M. Ngaga

TL;DR: A typology of monitoring categories, defined by their degree of local participation, is suggested, ranging from no local involvement with monitoring undertaken by professional researchers to an entirely local effort with monitoring undertook by local people, to help develop a protocol for monitoring in developing countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that local people can collect forest condition data of comparable quality to trained scientists, at half the cost, and draw on their experience to propose how and where local REDD+ monitoring can be established.

TL;DR: A multicountry assessment of tropical resource monitoring by local communities is presented in this paper, with a focus on the monitoring of tropical resources in the field of bio-medical applications.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate transferable household production functions of NTFP extraction in the Eastern Arc Mountains (EAM) in Tanzania, based on information from seven multi-site datasets related to the behaviour of over 2000 households.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a modeling approach for the economic valuation of annual Non-Timber Forest Product (NTFP) extraction at a large spatial scale, which has four main strengths: (1) it is based on household production functions using data of actual household behaviour, it is spatially sensitive, using a range of explanatory variables related to socio-demographic characteristics, population density, resource availability and accessibility, and it is generic and can therefore be up-scaled across nonsurveyed areas.