Passiveness: persons who participate when they are informed; they do not have any input in the decisions and in project implementation.

Supply of information: persons’ particpate responding to interviews; they do not have the possibility to influence nor even in the use to which the information will be put.

Participation by consultation: external agents consult and listen to the points of view of persons; they have no role in the decisions based on these consultations.

Participation by incentives: persons participate providing mainly work or other resources (land for trials) in exchange for certain incentives (materials, social, training); the project require their participation, nevertheless they have no direct role in the decisions.

Functional participation: persons participate forming work groups to respond to predetermined project objectives. They have no say in the formulation, but they are taken into account in the monitoring and adjustment of activities.

Interactive participation: the organized local groups participate in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of the project; this implies processes of systematic and structural training learning, and taking progressive control of the project.

Self-development: the organized local group takes initiatives without waiting for external interventions; the interventions are made in the form of assessors and members (taken from Geilfus 1998).