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Fostering a Wildlife-Friendly Program for Sustainable Coffee Farming: The Case of Small-Holder Farmers in Indonesia

Volume 10 Issue 2

Peer-reviewed publication
February, 2021
Indonesia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
agroforestry systems
community forestry
farmers
forestry
There is an urgent need for a global transition to sustainable and wildlife-friendly farming systems that provide social and economic equity and protect ecosystem services on which agriculture depends. Java is home to 60% of Indonesia’s population and harbors many endemic species; thus, managing agriculture alongside human well-being and biodiversity is vital. Within a community of ~400 coffee farmers in the province of West Java, we assessed the steps to develop a wildlife-friendly program until reaching certification between February 2019 and October 2020.
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Earthworm Diversity, Forest Conversion and Agroforestry in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam

Volume 10 Issue 1

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2021
Vietnam
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forestry
land use
The conversion of natural forests to different land uses still occurs in various parts of Southeast Asia with poor records of impact on ecosystem services and biodiversity. We quantified such impacts on earthworm diversity in two communes of Quang Nam province, Vietnam. Both communes are situated within buffer zones of a nature reserve where remaining natural forests are under threat of continued conversion.
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Assessing community-based natural resource management effectiveness in Siem Reap province, Cambodia

Reports & Research
April, 2014
Cambodia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forestry
land tenure
protected areas
Community forestry (CF) and Community Protected Areas (CPA) have been established for well over a decade in Siem Reap province. The study investigates the socioeconomic benefits gained by CPA and CF members from their participation in Community-Based Resources Management CBNRM. In CBNRM, local communities are responsible for the management of local resources. However, many CBNRM initiatives in Cambodia are more controlled by government than by communities. The report analyzes and compares two communities and the results of their CBNRM practices.
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Do collective property rights make sense? : insights from central Vietnam

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2012
Vietnam
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
collective ownership
forestry
land reform
property rights
We draw on empirical results from three case studies of property rights change across forest and fisheries ecosystems in central Vietnam to investigate the circumstances under which collective property rights may make sense. A
generic property rights framework was used to examine the bundles of rights and associated rights holders in each case, and to assess these arrangements with regard to their contextual fit, legitimacy and enforceability. The cases illustrate the interactions between private and collective rights to lands and resources, and the
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Impacts of formal and informal wood exports on Cambodian economy : input output analysis; final draft

Reports & Research
April, 2015
China, Cambodia, Laos
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land, Climate Change & Environment
deforestation
foreign investment
Indigenous Peoples
land reform
The Cambodian government allowed 1,204,750 hectares as economic land concession (ELC) to 118 local and international companies. Global Witness reported that 2.6 million ha had been given in 272 ELCs, mainly for rubber plantations. Many concessionaires do not comply with their contracts, nor with existing land and forest laws. Government revenues from timber exports are extremely low. Deforestation, and removal of luxury timbers has increased dramatically. Land concessions rob local communities of their income from non-timber forest products.
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Shifting patterns of oil palm driven deforestation in Indonesia and implications for zero-deforestation commitments

Land Use Policy Volume 69

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2017
Indonesia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agriculture
deforestation
land use
palm oil industries
research
Oil palm plantations in Indonesia have been linked to substantial deforestation in the 1990s and 2000s, though recent studies suggest that new plantations are increasingly developed on non-forest land. Without nationwide data to establish recent baseline trends, the impact of commitments to eliminate deforestation from palm oil supply chains could therefore be overestimated. We examine the area and proportion of plantations replacing forests across Sumatra, Kalimantan, and Papua up to 2015, and map biophysically suitable areas for future deforestation-free expansion.
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Building an effective coalition to improve forest policy: Lessons from the coastal Tripa peat swamp rainforest, Sumatra, Indonesia

Land Use Policy Volume 99

Peer-reviewed publication
December, 2020
Indonesia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land & Investments
Land Conflicts
Land, Climate Change & Environment
advocacy
deforestation
land use
palm oil industries
research
In recent history, Indonesian forest policies have been dominated by deforestation in the name of economic progress. Many actors have expressed concerns about this trend and have tried to reverse it in favour of a more sustainable pathway. From 2004–2017, non-governmental environmental organisations fought for the case of the coastal Tripa peat swamp rainforest in the province of Aceh, Sumatra. Unique in Indonesian history, they managed halting and reversing the deforestation of an area.
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Effectiveness and equity of Payments for Ecosystem Services: Real-effort experiments with Vietnamese land users

Land Use Policy Volume 86

Peer-reviewed publication
July, 2019
South-Eastern Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forest conservation
land use
research
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are widespread in conservation policy. In PES, environmental effectiveness and social equity are often perceived as conflicting goals. Empirical studies on the relationship between popular design features, such as payment differentiation and payment conditionality, and effectiveness and equity are scarce. Further, they struggle with measuring and separating ecological and equity outcomes.
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Local impacts of industrial tree plantations: An empirical analysis in Indonesia across plantation types

Land Use Policy Volume 60

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2017
Indonesia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forestry
land use
research
The values ascribed to industrial tree plantations are often controversial. Hence knowledge of their perceived impacts is important for improving their integration in rural landscapes. In 2016 we conducted household surveys with 606 respondents living in villages adjacent to acacia, teak and pine plantations across three islands in Indonesia (Java, Borneo, Sumatra). Results show that perceptions toward pine and teak plantations tend to differ from those toward acacia pulpwood plantations in several ways.
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Revisiting forest transition explanations: The role of “push” factors and adaptation strategies in forest expansion in northern Phetchabun, Thailand

Land Use Policy Volume 83

Peer-reviewed publication
April, 2019
Thailand
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
forest conservation
land use
research
Researchers and policy makers are increasingly looking at the drivers of forest recovery (or forest transition) for inspiration in their search for win-win solutions to deforestation. However, causal generalizations regarding forest transitions are subject to significant problems. First, forest transition theory (FTT), at least in its simplest renditions, tends to emphasize socially benign processes and fails to pay sufficient attention to the causal role—and social impacts—of negative (push) dynamics.