CIFOR-ICRAF s’attaque aux défis et aux opportunités locales tout en apportant des solutions aux problèmes mondiaux concernant les forêts, les paysages, les populations et la planète.

Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR-ICRAF publie chaque année plus de 750 publications sur l’agroforesterie, les forêts et le changement climatique, la restauration des paysages, les droits, la politique forestière et bien d’autres sujets encore, et ce dans plusieurs langues. .

CIFOR-ICRAF s’attaque aux défis et aux opportunités locales tout en apportant des solutions aux problèmes mondiaux concernant les forêts, les paysages, les populations et la planète.

Nous fournissons des preuves et des solutions concrètes pour transformer l’utilisation des terres et la production alimentaire : conserver et restaurer les écosystèmes, répondre aux crises mondiales du climat, de la malnutrition, de la biodiversité et de la désertification. En bref, nous améliorons la vie des populations.

CIFOR–ICRAF publishes over 750 publications every year on agroforestry, forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy and much more – in multiple languages.

CIFOR–ICRAF addresses local challenges and opportunities while providing solutions to global problems for forests, landscapes, people and the planet.

We deliver actionable evidence and solutions to transform how land is used and how food is produced: conserving and restoring ecosystems, responding to the global climate, malnutrition, biodiversity and desertification crises. In short, improving people’s lives.

The Indonesian agroforest model forest resource management and biodiversity conservation

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Rural life in Indonesia is still greatly dependent on forests, although resource use by local populations often tends to be exploitative. While predation of in situ resources does exist, there are also interesting examples of conservative resource management outside natural forest by local populations throughout the archipelago. As native populations' traditional access to natural forests becomes more and more limit, forest resources are often managed through an ago-forestry reconstruction of the ecosystem: the ago-forest. In the present context of degradation of natural ecosystems and of generalized dilapidation of their resources, indigenous ago-forests reaffirm traditional responsibility over natural resources by native farmers and societies. Besides management of useful species, these ago-forests also allow conservation of a good part of animal and plant diversity. In Sumatra, results of a comparative study on biodiversity levels between natural forests, several ago-forests and mono specific plantations show the high potential of this original type of resource management system in conserving forest biodiversity in agricultural lands.

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