| Title | Agroforests: Pre-Domestication of Forest Trees or True Domestication of Forest Ecosystems? |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1997 |
| Authors | Michon, G.; de Foresta, H. |
| ContactAuthor | asb@cgiar.org |
| Journal | Netherlands Journal of Agricultural Science |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Keywords | Agriculture, domestication, ecosystems, forest, Indonesia, resources |
| Abstract | Domestication of forest resources and artificialization of forest ecosystems in tropical forest areas are often encompassed in a linear way: from wild resources to genetically improved trees, from complex ecosystems to controlled tree plantations. This linear evolution might be true for professional forestry or horticulture. However, it does not embrace the complexity of smallholder farmers practices for forest resources utilization. Incorporating forest resources in production systems is not a new practice in the tropics, it even constitute the very basis of a whole facet of indigenous agricultures. But this agroforestry practice is not usually considered as a full domestication process. And, in spite of an increasing amount of academic interest for indigenous forest-like plantation models, agroforestry research is not yet fully considering the prospects of these models as far as f |
