Abstract:
• Communities in forest areas can be trained to map and inventory forests
although they may need technical support for some tasks.
• The cost of community carbon monitoring is likely to be much less than
for professional surveys and accuracy is relatively good. The degree of
precision depends on the size of the sample. There is a tradeoff between
the cost of increasing the sample size and the amount of carbon that
communities could claim.
• Entrusting forest inventory work to communities could have other
advantages for national REDD+ programmes, such as transparency and
recognition of the value of community forest management in providing
carbon services.
