Estimates of the area of swidden fallow secondary forest in Indonesia are inaccurate, partly because swidden agricultural practices giving rise to the secondary forest are heterogeneous. Throughout Indonesia, swidden agriculture is evolving into more intensive land use. A mixed secondary forest tree crop management appears to be the first stage towards a tree crop based production in Sumatra and Kalimantan. This changes the value of the forest/tree component of swidden agriculture, or the systems it evolves into.

It is widely believed that land tenure insecurity under a customary tenure system leads to a socially inefficient resource allocation. This article demonstrates that the practice of granting secure individual ownership to tree planters spurs earlier tree planting, which is inefficient from the private point of view but could be efficient from the viewpoint of the global environment. Regression analysis, based on primary data collected in Sumatra, indicates that an expected increase in tenure security in fact led to early tree planting.

Mensajes principales

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo fundamental determinar el nivel de conocimientos sobre manejo forestal sostenible que presenta el poblador de la Provincia de Atalaya – Departamento de Ucayali, que recibió capacitación del OSINFOR, aplicando la evaluación en el año 2017. La investigación se desarrolló bajo el enfoque cuantitativo y fue sustantiva de nivel descriptivo, por lo que se aplicó un diseño no experimental de corte transversal.