| Abstract: |
| In many parts of Asia, government controls most of forest area. Claims of state ownership, whether or not they are fully legal, obstructs access to forest by local people, as their important resources for their livelihoods and condemns them to poverty more deeply. Land tenure can be an attractive incentive (reward) for farmers to get engaged in sustainable management of protected forest land. The conditional land tenure (HKm) permits granted land rights to the farmers for a 5-year trial period, with possible extensions to beyond 35 years, if they promised to planting multistrata trees, conserving remaining natural forest, and practicing conservation techniques. ICRAF through the negotiation support system and Rewarding Upland Poor for Environmental Services (RUPES) have been facilitated farmers groups in Sumberjaya, Lampung, Indonesia to obtain conditional land right. Step-by-step towards conditional tenure rewards, are:
• Start with trust building and raise their awareness to conservation issues.
• Strengthen local institutional capacity
• Identify the champion from government officers who can act as spinner in the negotiation process.
• Synthesis scientific evidences for argumentation in the negotiation process.
• Facilitate the media for negotiation among the stakeholder
• Develop indicator for monitoring by participatory approach
• Regular dialogs and policy formulation at district level and up streaming to national negotiation process. |
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