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| Title | A Conjoint Analysis of Farmer Preferences for Community Forestry Contracts in the Sumber Jaya Watershed, Indonesia | | Author | Bustanul Arifin, Brent M. Swallow, S. Suyanto and Richard Coe | | Year | 2008 | | Publisher | World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF | | City of Publication | Nairobi, Kenya | | Series Number | ICRAF Working Paper 63 | | Number of Pages | 36 | | Call Number | WP0101-08 | | Keywords | Community forestry programs, community forestry contracts, conjoint analysis,
Indonesia; ordered logit |
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| A wide range of policy instruments have been devised and applied to support the goals
of sustainable forestry management. Community forestry programs can contain elements of several of these instruments. This paper considers the design of community
forestry contracts in Indonesia. In the research site, community forestry contracts are
contracts between the Forestry Department and community groups that provide group
members with time-bound leasehold rights to protection forests, provided that farmers
abide by specified land-use restrictions and pay any required fees. Farmers perceive that the contracts represent a bundle of restrictions and instruments, some of which are
explicitly stated in the contract and others that are implied by the contract. Conjoint
analysis was used to quantify farmers’ tradeoffs among the explicit and implicit
attributes of the contracts. The results of bivariate and ordered logit models show that
farmers are most concerned about the length of the contract, and surprisingly
unconcerned about requirements on tree density and species composition. An implicit
attribute, greater access to forestry and agroforestry extension, emerged as an important implicit attribute. The results imply that farmers in this part of Indonesia would be willing to abide by fairly strict limitations on land use, provided that they can be assured of long-term rights to the planted trees. |
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