How is the local production integrated into the market economy? (e.g., distance to
markets, navigable rivers, roads, transport costs, middlemen margins).
What type of forest are people using? What activities or historical events may have
influenced the vegetation? Is it highly manipulated or near-natural?
What main products are extracted? What are their marketing characteristics (e.g., perishability, local value-added or processing, demand elasticities)? Are some products dominant?
Are the products planted, tended, or wild? Is harvesting regulated by local or
government interventions (taxes, incentives, controls)? Who owns, tends, guards, collects, and buys? What are the norms of behavior? What determines/constrains production (land, labor, skills, credit, technology,
market access, tenure, conflicts, etc.)?
What are the local skills, views, and dispositions, including the potentially diverse cultural
and institutional factors that influence preferences, motivations, and the ability to act upon them?
