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Rattan (Calamus spp.) gardens of Kalimantan: resilience and evolution in a managed non-timber forest product system

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Title Rattan (Calamus spp.) gardens of Kalimantan: resilience and evolution in a managed non-timber forest product system
 
Creator Pambudhi, F.
Belcher, B.
Levang, P.
Dewi, S.
 
Subject canes and rattans
cultivation
shifting cultivation
socioeconomics
state intervention
fire effects
plantations
non-timber forest products
 
Description Rattan cultivated as part of the traditional swidden agricultural system has been a major source of internationally traded rattan raw material and, more recently, the basis of a strong domestic furniture and handicrafts industry. The rattan gardens of Kalimantan provide an example of an intermediate non-timber forest product management system that is well adapted to the local economy and ecology. Over the past two decades, however, important changes have taken place, changes that tested the resilience of the system. Government policies designed to encourage the domestic processing industry and monopsonistic manufacturing association have sharply depressed demand and prices. New developments in the region, in the form of roads, industrial plantations, mining, and other new activities. Recent widespread forest fires have destroyed large areas of rattan gardend, effectively forcing some rattan farmers out of businnes. Under current conditions, withlow prevailing demand and prices, rattan gardens provide valuable ecological services, in term of biodiversity conservation and other forest functions. As rattan remains an important commodity in Indonesia and internationally, the rattan garden system may remain viable, at least in the medium term.
 
Date 2004
2012-06-04T09:08:57Z
2012-06-04T09:08:57Z
 
Type Book Chapter
 
Identifier Pambudhi, F., Belcher, B., Levang, P., Dewi, S. 2004. Rattan (Calamus spp.) gardens of Kalimantan: resilience and evolution in a managed non-timber forest product system . In: Koen Kuster and Brian Belcher (eds.). Forest products, livelihoods and conservation: case studies of non-timber forest product systems. volume 1 - Asia. :347-365. Bogor, Indonesia, CIFOR.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18925
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/1481
 
Language en
 
Publisher Center for International Forestry Research