Please refer to High Carbon Stock Approach: Scope of Applicability for RSPO Certification (also applicable for other sectors) for more information on how the HCS Approach Toolkit can be used and when it requires formal trialing to support potential toolkit adaptations in different countries, biomes, production setups, and forest types.

This table below identifies where the HCS Approach is currently being applied, trialled and being prepared for trials by region, commodity, scale and biome.

	HCS Approach being applied	HCS Approach being trialled	HCS Approach trials in preparation
Region	South East Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia) West Africa (Liberia, Ghana, Sierra Leone & Nigeria) Central Africa (Cameroon, Gabon) Pacific (Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands) Central America (Mexico)	Central Africa (Gabon) West Africa (Ghana) Central America (Mexico) South America (Peru)	–
Commodities	Oil palm Pulpwood Rubber	Oil palm Cocoa
Scale	Concessions Scheme smallholders	Independent smallholders Landscape/large Village-level	–
Biomes	Tropical moist forest biomes	Tropical moist forest biomes	–

Ongoing HCSA Trials

No	Trial	Principle Participant(s)	Location	Status
1.	Peat Aware Village and HCV-HCS pilot: Sg Linau, Riau	Proforest	Sg Linau, Riau, Indonesia	Completed
2.	Achieving no-deforestation palm oil in a smallholder landscape in Chiapas, Mexico	Earthworm Foundation	Chiapas, Mexico	Ongoing
3.	Developing a landscape-level HCS and HCV approach in a smallholder context in Tocache, Peru	Earthworm Foundation National Wildlife Federation	Tocache, Peru	Ongoing
4.	Achieving No-deforestation cocoa: piloting HCS and HCV methodologies in Enchi, Ghana	Earthworm Foundation	Enchi, Western Region, Ghana	Ongoing
5.	HCV-HCSA for Mexico	Earthworm Foundation & Proforest	Chiapas, Tabasco, Veracruz, and Campeche States, Mexico	Ongoing