Enhancing the knowledge and skills of smallholders to adopt market-oriented tree management practices: lessons from Master TreeGrower training courses in Indonesia
| Autor: | Agusman, R. Reid, A. R. H. Bisjoe, Digby Race, T. Herawati, Silvi Nur Oktalina, A. K. Wakka, A. Muktasam |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Zdroj: | Australian Forestry. 82:4-13 |
| ISSN: | 2325-6087 0004-9158 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00049158.2019.1605681 |
| Popis: | Growing trees on farmland continues to be a promising land-use option for smallholders in Indonesia as they look to diversify their enterprises beyond the main agricultural sector. While most smallholders integrate trees into their farming systems, selling timber and other tree products has usually been infrequent and opportunistic. Because of this infrequent trade, most smallholders rarely adopt silvicultural practices that would increase the commercial value of their trees. A research project trialled an alternative approach to forestry extension in Indonesia, known as the Master TreeGrower (MTG) training course. The MTG training courses used a farmer-centred approach to teach smallholders about forest science and took participants to market hubs so they could better understand how different forest products were valued by traders. The MTG training approach was trialled in 2014 in five districts in Indonesia and involved 118 smallholders and 27 non-farmers as course participants. This article rep... |
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