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Community-Based Peat Swamp Restoration Through Agroforestry in Indonesia

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Agroforestry for Degraded Landscapes

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Ecological restoration efforts in Indonesia have proliferated since the severe forest and peat fires in 2015. These efforts accommodate socio-economic sustainability and focus on reducing anthropogenic pressure on the ecosystem. As a sustainable livelihood option, agroforestry can enhance community welfare and restore the degraded ecosystem. Local communities in Indonesia possess knowledge related to the management of the ecosystem and practice many traditional agroforestry systems, e.g. local timber gardens—repong damar, simpukng and tembawang. This traditional knowledge is evaluated based on the centuries of human interaction with the environment. This chapter reviews various agroforestry systems and their local values in a peat swamp ecosystem useful for peatland restoration. We identify various traditional agroforestry systems that can be practiced in a degraded peat swamp area and to restore the associate ecosystem. Building on this, we suggest future approaches, focusing on advocacy and dissemination of traditional knowledge and practices. Further, a study on rebuilding and documenting traditional knowledge and agroforestry practices in a peat swamp ecosystem is crucial.

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This study is supported by the CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (CRP-FTA) with financial support from the donors that support the CGIAR Fund. Many thanks are also extended to the people at the study sites where the field investigation was undertaken, who shared their precious time, knowledge and concerns.

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Samsudin, Y.B., Puspitaloka, D., Rahman, S.A., Chandran, A., Baral, H. (2020). Community-Based Peat Swamp Restoration Through Agroforestry in Indonesia. In: Dagar, J.C., Gupta, S.R., Teketay, D. (eds) Agroforestry for Degraded Landscapes. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4136-0_12

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