Resources
The Green Value Tool for Simplified Financial Analysis
GREEN VALUE TOOL USER'S GUIDE AND WORKSHEETS
GREEN VALUE TOOL FACILITATOR'S KIT
Complete this form to download the Green Value Facilitator’s Guide and related materials in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Complete this form to download the Green Value User's Guide and worksheets in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
Presentation on the Green Value tool
Learn more about the Green Value tool and its use to date from this presentation.
VIDEO ABOUT the GREEN VALUE tool
Watch a brief video about the Green Value tool.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO THE GREEN VALUE TOOL
Humphries, Shoana, Thomas Holmes, Dárlison Fernandes Carvalho de Andrade, David McGrath, and Jeremias Batista Dantas. in press. Searching for win-win forest outcomes: Learning-by-doing, financial viability, and income growth for a community-based forest management cooperative in the Brazilian Amazon. World Development.
Humphries, Shoana and Thomas Holmes. 2015. Financial Analysis of Community-based Forest Enterprises with the Green Value tool. In, Pansel, Laslo and Michael Köhl, Eds, Tropical Forestry Handbook. Second Edition. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. 15 p.
Humphries, Shoana, Thomas Holmes, Karen Kainer, Carlos Gabriel Gonçalves Koury, Edson Cruz, and Rosana de Miranda Rocha*. 2012. Are community-based forest enterprises in the tropics financially viable? Case studies from the Brazilian Amazon. Ecological Economics 77: 62-73
* This article is also available in Spanish and Portuguese.
CASE STUDIES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO THE GREEN VALUE TOOL
Financial analysis of family babaçu collection in Brazil (2017) available in English and Portuguese.
Financial analysis of a community bamboo enterprise in southern Ecuador (2017) available in English and Spanish.
Financial Analysis of a Reforestation and Payment for Environmental Services Project in Piura, Peru (2017) available in English and Spanish.
A Green Value tool brochure (2014) available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
A Green Value policy brief (2014) available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
EXAMPLE DATA TO USE FOR REFERENCE OR IN EXERCISES
Nine data sets are available to download (see the links below) to facilitate learning how to use the Green Value: 3 in English, 3 in Spanish, and 3 in Portuguese. The data sets consist of Green Value worksheets (in the Simple or Advanced version) that were completed during Green Value training workshops. The names and other identifying characteristics of the producers, such as dates and details about forest resources, have been deleted or changed to protect the privacy of the producer.
Click on the links to download the datasets in which you are interested.
In English, data sets include analysis of the production of:
bamboo by a family in Colombia (Simple version of worksheets).
Brazil nut by a family in Brazil (Simple version)
dimensional lumber by a cooperative in Guatemala (Advanced version)
In Spanish, data sets include analysis of the production of:
logs by an association in Bolivia (Simple version)
dimensional lumber by a cooperative in Guatemala (Advanced version)
bamboo poles by a family in Colombia (Simple version).
In Portuguese, the data sets include analysis of the production of:
dimensional lumber by an association in Brazil (Simple version)
Brazil nuts by a family in Brazil (Simple version)
açaí seedlings by a micro-enterprise in Brazil (Simple version).
