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Farming secondary forests in Indonesia

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Title Farming secondary forests in Indonesia
 
Creator Jong, W. de
Noordwijk, Meine van
Sirait, M.
Liswanti, N.
 
Subject secondary forests
tropical forests
shifting cultivation
agroforestry
biodiversity
carbon sequestration
fallow
land use
intensification
plantation crops
 
Description Estimates of the area of swidden fallow secondary forest in Indonesia are inaccurate, partly because swidden agricultural practices giving rise to the secondary forest are heterogeneous. Throughout Indonesia, swidden agriculture is evolving into more intensive land use. A mixed secondary forest tree crop management appears to be the first stage towards a tree crop based production in Sumatra and Kalimantan. This changes the value of the forest/tree component of swidden agriculture, or the systems it evolves into. The trade offs between productivity, environmental functions, biodiversity, and sequestrated carbon are only qualitatively understood. Some of the proposed large scale estate crop production programmes in Indonesia disregard the benefits (a diverse agriculture, forest landscape, better environmental functions, higher biodiversity) that development along these endogenous trends may provide.
 
Date 2001
2012-06-04T09:06:28Z
2012-06-04T09:06:28Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier de Jong, W., van Noordwijk, M., Sirait, M., Liswanti, N. 2001. Farming secondary forests in Indonesia . Journal of Tropical Forest Science 13 (4) :705-726.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18447
https://www.cifor.org/knowledge/publication/970
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access
 
Format p. 705-726
 
Source Journal of Tropical Forest Science