Friday 8 March 2013

Three Dimensional Agroforestry System in Forest Rehabilitation

SUMMARY
Three Dimensional Agroforestry System in Forest Rehabilitation
By
Adisti Permatasari P.H

The forest has important role  for human life, as producers of goods and services.  Besides that, forest also has function that related on ecological, social, and economic aspects.  But a lot of forest resources have been exploited excessively  without considering about its sustainability. The condition of socio-economic in forest community  is a major pressure factor to forest sustainability.  Based on the  data from the Ministry of  Forestry (1994) from  27.2 million people who lived in around forest area, there are 34% of community that belongs as the poor and  their life depends on forest resources (Rajati 2006).  Although the communities always utilize forest products, but their  welfare are still staying on in the poverty line.  This condition become a big problems because the communities who utilize the forest resources, their welfare are still under the  standard of normal live.
Various ways to handle the  critical land has been conducted by the government.  There are several programs focusing on  reforestation, afforestation, National Movement for Rehabilitation  (GNRHL).  But, the success of the reforestation activities  was  relatively low about 68 % and 21 %.  Whereas rehabilitation of degraded land has been assessed  on expended  government budget only (Anonymous 2008). The fundamental problem is to change the critical land become the productive land by using the land optimally.  Many  partial ways to solve the problems that has been done, actually it hasn’t solved the problems yet. Therefore, the strategy to solve the problem must be changed based on the community approach, for example through an agroforestry system.

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