Domestication of forest resources and artficialization of forest ecosystems in tropical forest areas are often encompassed in a linear way, from wild resources to genetically improved trees, from complex ecosystems to controlled tree plantations. This linear evolution might be true for professional forestry or horticulture. However, it does not embrace the complexity of smallholder farmers practices for forst resources utilization. Incorporating forest resources in production systems is not a new practice in the tropics, it even constitute the very basis of a whole facet of indegineous agricultures. But this agroforestry practice is not usually considered as a full domestication process.
Publication year
1997
Authors
Language
English
Keywords
forest resources, forests, domestication, forest management, utilization, tropical rain forests, sustainability, community forestry, products, resins
Geographic
Indonesia
