The conditions necessary for increased productivity of agroforestry and other land uses to jointly reduce poverty and deforestation are not well understood. The global Alternatives to Slash-and-Burn (ASB) Programme was founded to provide scientific insights and workable innovations for the simultaneous pursuit of precisely these two goals: poverty reduction and rain forest conservation in the tropics. This chapter summarizes results from study sites on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia, which were chosen to represent the lowland humid tropical forest zone in Asia for the global ASB project.
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https://doi.org/10.1079/9780851994352.0221Altmetric score:
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Publication year
2001
Authors
Tomich T P; Budidarsono S; Gillison A N; Kusumanto T; Murdiyarso D; Stolle S F; Fagi A M; Van Noordwijk M
Language
English
Keywords
agricultural practices, deforestation, shifting cultivation, land use, decision making, technology, markets, technology transfer, innovation adoption, environmental factors
Geographic
Indonesia
