Landscape rehabilitation of degraded tropical forest ecosystems: case study of the CIFOR/Japan project in Indonesia and Peru

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cg.coverage.countryIndonesia
cg.coverage.countryPeru
cg.coverage.countryJapan
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2ID
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PE
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2JP
cg.coverage.regionSouth-eastern Asia
cg.coverage.regionSouth America
cg.coverage.regionEastern Asia
cg.identifier.urlhttps://www.cifor-icraf.org/knowledge/publication/1599en
cg.issn0378-1127en
cg.journalForest Ecology and Managementen
cg.subject.ciforPLANTATIONS AND REHABILITATION OF DEGRADED FORESTSen
dc.contributor.authorKobayashi, S.en
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-04T09:09:03Zen
dc.date.available2012-06-04T09:09:03Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/19036
dc.titleLandscape rehabilitation of degraded tropical forest ecosystems: case study of the CIFOR/Japan project in Indonesia and Peruen
dcterms.abstractTropical forest area is disappearing at the rate of 13.5 million ha each year, due mainly to clearing for agriculture and shifting cultivation. Timber harvesting results in more than 5 million ha of tropical forest annually being transformed into degraded, poorly managed, logged-over forests. The reduction and degradation caused by anthropological activities affect not only the sustainable production of timber but also the global environment. Accurate scientific information will enable managers to devise silvicultural systems to enhance soil properties and forest resources important for sustainable production and to minimize deleterious impacts of harvesting and short rotation plantations. Ultimately, rehabilitation can increase the area of forest as well as conserve remaining primary forests and environmental quality. Rehabilitation aims to improve biological diversity, increase commercial value of timber and non-timber products, increase forest functions and improve soil fertility. Technical advances will reduce logging impacts, accelerate natural regeneration and improve species selection, enrichment, sustainable site management, catalytic planting and site evaluation and classification. Socio-economic reform should focus on local community participation and acceptance. The CIFOR/Japan project has undertaken research in many countries to evaluate impacts of harvesting and fires on forest ecosystems and to develop methods to rehabilitate logged-over forests and degraded forestlands in ways that are biologically successful as well as socio-economically acceptable. In Indonesia, CIFOR collaborates with Universitas Mulawarman at the Bukit Soeharto Education Forest, a mixed dipterocarp forest logged by INHUTANI I in 1976. The approach to rehabilitation has been through the "taungya" system whereby farmers grow annual crops among newly planted trees. With the Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agraria (INIA), Peru, the project is trialling revegetation of fallow fields abandoned after agricultural use in the Ucayali region of the Peruvian Amazon. There is specific interest in selecting tree species with high economic value that grow rapidly in abandoned agricultural land and on infertile soils. Early results point to promising species. The project also involves small farmers in silvicultural activities and species selection.en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKobayashi, S. 2004. Landscape rehabilitation of degraded tropical forest ecosystems: case study of the CIFOR/Japan project in Indonesia and Peru . Forest Ecology and Management 201 (1) :13-22. ISSN: 0378-1127.en
dcterms.issued2004
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.subjectland degradationen
dcterms.subjectrehabilitationen
dcterms.subjectresearch projectsen
dcterms.subjectdegraded forestsen
dcterms.subjectdegraded landen
dcterms.subjectsilvicultureen
dcterms.subjectchoice of speciesen
dcterms.subjecttaungyaen
dcterms.subjectfarmersen
dcterms.subjectsustainabilityen
dcterms.subjectforest managementen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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