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| Title | Stopping haze when it rains: lessons learnt in 20 years of Alternatives-to-Slash-and-Burn research in Indonesia | | Author | Hesti L. Tata, Meine van Noordwijk, Niken Sakuntaladewi, Lukas R. Wibowo, Bastoni, Agustinus P. Tampubolon, Adi Susmianto and Atiek Widayati | | Year | 2015 | | Publisher | ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins | | City of Publication | Nairobi | | Series Number | ASB Brief no 45 | | Number of Pages | 6 | | Call Number | PB0091-15 |
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Starting from the 1995 ASB Indonesia report and the analysis of underlying causes of the 1997/8 fires, technical, social and economic understanding has increased, and there now is a general willingness to act, with conflict-reducing solutions in some places (see ASB briefs for examples), but still the ‘ability to act’ is short of what is needed.
One issue that has emerged is the limited attention span of the policy debate: in the heat of debate on a current crisis, promises are made to prevent a reoccurrence, but giving that a real followup beyond rhetoric remains a challenge. Our key findings are focussed on the need to shift the costs and benefits for those who still decide to use fire to clear forests. As long as excessive logging and conversion of forests pays while non-burning conversion methods cost more than use of fire, the temptation to rely on this shortcut will persist. This more so because land and forest ownership remain contested. We have seen and documented cases where international market pressure helps locally to make conversion of peatlands to oil palm less attractive, but apparently there still are other markets that don’t sufficiently care about where there raw materials come from. Alternative, low-impact land use options and their value chains remain underdeveloped. |
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