Add to ORKGLocated on the fringe of the last tropical rainforests of Sumatra, rubber agroforests are known to conserve the main ecological functions of the primary forest, including a large part of its biodiversity. Nowadays these smallholder plantations are under threat. The regular rise of natural rubber and crude palm oil prices has been a major incentive for farmers to convert their agroforests into clonal rubber and oil-palm plantations. However, some areas seem to resist conversion. A multidisciplinary approach combining perception surveys and satellite-image analysis was designed to find out the reasons for these differences. In 12 villages grouped in 3 categories according to their agroforest conversion rate between 1993 and 2005, farmers were...
Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and the ext...
Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and the ext...
Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and the ext...
Located on the fringe of the last tropical rainforests of Sumatra, rubber agroforests are known to c...
Located on the fringe of the last tropical rainforests of Sumatra, rubber agroforests are known to c...
Until the end of the nineteenth century primary forests covered nearly all the island of Sumatra. Th...
Until the end of the nineteenth century primary forests covered nearly all the island of Sumatra. Th...
During this century, forests have been extensively slashed and burned mainly in the lowlands of Suma...
Agricultural landscapes are primarily designed by farming practices. Farmers chosse their farming pr...
Smallholder farmers and indigenous communities must cope with the opportunities and threats presente...
International audienceAgricultural landscapes are primarily designed by farming practices. Farmers c...
International audienceAgricultural landscapes are primarily designed by farming practices. Farmers c...
International audienceAgricultural landscapes are primarily designed by farming practices. Farmers c...
Cash crops are developing in the once forested areas of Indonesia in parallel with market and econom...
Smallholder farmers and indigenous communities must cope with the opportunities and threats presente...
Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and the ext...
Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and the ext...
Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and the ext...
Located on the fringe of the last tropical rainforests of Sumatra, rubber agroforests are known to c...
Located on the fringe of the last tropical rainforests of Sumatra, rubber agroforests are known to c...
Until the end of the nineteenth century primary forests covered nearly all the island of Sumatra. Th...
Until the end of the nineteenth century primary forests covered nearly all the island of Sumatra. Th...
During this century, forests have been extensively slashed and burned mainly in the lowlands of Suma...
Agricultural landscapes are primarily designed by farming practices. Farmers chosse their farming pr...
Smallholder farmers and indigenous communities must cope with the opportunities and threats presente...
International audienceAgricultural landscapes are primarily designed by farming practices. Farmers c...
International audienceAgricultural landscapes are primarily designed by farming practices. Farmers c...
International audienceAgricultural landscapes are primarily designed by farming practices. Farmers c...
Cash crops are developing in the once forested areas of Indonesia in parallel with market and econom...
Smallholder farmers and indigenous communities must cope with the opportunities and threats presente...
Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and the ext...
Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and the ext...
Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and the ext...