Farmers of the forest margins all over the archipelago of Indonesia have conceived remarkable agroforestry systems which associate ancient forest management systems with a logic of commercial agriculture, and established typical forest structures in agricultural lands. As pure fores reconstruction enterprises, Indonesian agro-forest, besides their agricultural qualities, should be understood as an original appropriation strategy of forest resources by local communities which allows to escape the contradiction existing between an institutional framework which sharply limits their access to natural forests and an economic reality which pushes towards intensive utilization of their resources.
Publication year
1996
Authors
Michon G; De Foresta H; Aliadi A
Language
English
Geographic
Indonesia
