**Participatory methods and tools:**

PRA tools were used at village level during half day group discussions. These discussions took place in the Fig. 2 mentioned villages, during July 2010. The tools included participatory mapping, open ended questions, semi-structured questionnaires and brain storming sessions, leading to one set of ecological C&I per village.

Fig. 2. Decisional framework for village selection. For each forest use type, two communes with territorial dominance of the concerned type (in % of the commune's forest area and ha) were chosen.
