The results are technically satisfactory but their socio-economic value remains unproven. Bushmeat is a major part of the diet of forest peoples. Animal products are often the only source of protein in remote areas and the only source of sufficient cash earnings to buy basic necessities such as soap, salt, kerosene, medicines and the like. If these resources are exploited beyond what the natural equilibrium will bear, the sustainability of the resource is undermined. Encourage forms of hunting and gathering, livestock rearing and farming that do not destroy the forest.
Extensive agriculture plays an important role in the subsistence of forest peoples.
A diversity of resources increases both economic and food security and reduces the risk of over-exploitation. Better farming methods generate revenues that provide an alternative to revenue from hunting and so further the programme's objectives.