Multifunctional landscapes and species-rich agroforests can support biodiversity conservation. Command-and-control conservation approaches tend to create sharp distinctions between protected areas and surrounding agriculture . Can a village –agroforest –forest landscape gradient be stable Or is it part of a continuous process of forest conversion that in the end will leave hardly any conservation values in tact The landscape of Batang Toru, Sumatra offers a case study . It is home to a genetically unique Sumatran or angutan population and to people of diverse backgrounds . It provides insight in to the types of government policy and market-based instruments that are needed to stabilise the existing gradient.
Publication year
2011
Authors
Tata M H L; Widayati A; Mulyoutami E; van Noordwijk, M.
Language
English
Geographic
Indonesia
