Property rights, environmental services and poverty alleviation in Indonesia
2008
j.m kerr
J.M Kerr, 'Property rights, environmental services and poverty alleviation in Indonesia', p.4, 2008
Show more [+] Less [-]I N 1999, M R . A DING S UWARNA , THE LEADER of the village of Tribudi Syukur in Sumatra, Indonesia, heard from a local forest officer about a new community forestry program providing farmers with long-term licenses to use degraded protected state forest land for coffee produc- tion. The requirements were that the farmers protect the remaining forest, plant environmentally-beneficial agroforestry trees in their coffee plantations, and use appropriate soil and water conservation practices. This program offered a new and potentially more effective approach to achieving sustainable forest management in Indonesia. Several times in the previ- ous two decades, coffee farmers in Tribudi Syukur and many other communities had been forcibly evicted from state forest land areas, their plantations de- stroyed, and trees planted by the government. Such efforts did not produce lasting protection or restoration of the forest areas, which were ravaged by subse- quent fires and illegal encroachments. The new community forestry, or Hutan Kamasyarakatan (HKm) program, sought a different approach: reward farmers with increased tenure security in already degraded areas in exchange for their cooperation in protecting the remaining forests and managing the land they use more sustainably
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