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| Title | Agroforestry is a form of sustainable forest management: lessons from South East Asia | | Author | Meine van Noordwijk, James M Roshetko, Murniati, Marian delos Angeles, S. Suyanto, Chip C Fay and Thomas P Tomich | | Year | 2003 | | Project series (series title) | ICRAF Southeast Asia Working Paper No. 2003_2 | | Publisher | World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF, SEA Regional Office | | City of Publication | Bogor, Indonesia | | Number of Pages | 18 | | Physic description | ill ; 29, 2 cm | | Call Number | WP0004-04 | | Keywords | Agroforestry, Forest Management, Southeast Asia |
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| Agroforestry as land used based on planted trees, provides productive and protective (biological diversity, helthly ecosystem, protection of soil and water resources, terretrial carbon storage) forest funcyion that societies care about in the debate on sustainable forest management. Yet, the trees planted in agroforestry systems are excluded in formal definitions and statistics of ' forestry plantations ' and overlooked in the legal and institutional framework sector and public debate to redress this oversight. We examine five issues that sustainable forest. First, issues of terminology for forest, plantations and reforestation are linked to land tenure and land use restrictions. Second, access to high quality palnting material of proven suitability remains a challenge especially at the start of a farmer-tree-planting phase of a lnadscape. Third, management skill and information often constrain production for high market values. Fourth, overregulation often restricts access to marketas for illegal logging from natural forest or government plantations. Fifth, there is a lack of reward mechanisms for environmental services provided by agroforestry. Current relationships between agroforestry and plantation forestry ability of (inter) national policy framewoks to provide a level playing field for conditions where large-scale plantations operate with substantial government subsidies (direct on indirect, partly justified by environmental service functions), in contrast to non-existent or minimal subsidies for agroforestry, the potential ecological services with agroforestry is placed at a disadvantage, to the detriment of society at large. |
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