| Title | Prospects of Adoption of Tree-Based Systems in a Rural Landscape and Its Likely Impacts on Carbon Stocks and Farmers' Welfare. |
| Publication Type | Working Paper |
| Authors | Suyamto, D.; van Noordwijk, M.; Lusiana, B.; Ekadinata, A.; Khasanah, N. |
| ContactAuthor | asb@cgiar.org |
| Secondary Title | ICRAF Working Paper No. 14 |
| Call Number | WP0068-06 |
| Publisher | World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF, SEA Regional Office |
| Place Published | Bogor, Indonesia |
| Year of Publication | 2006 |
| Number | 14 |
| Pagination | 22 |
| Publication Language | English |
| Abstract | This paper reports results on prospective analyses using the FALLOW model on adoption of land use systems by transmigrant and local farmers in lowland peneplain of Muara Sungkai, Lampung, Sumatra. Specific focus was to compare a 'project' (rapid tree planting in a limited area) approach to a programmatic one (facilitating spontaneous tree adoption in a larger area) in terms of carbon-stocks gains and projected effects on farmers’ welfare, in a 'clean development mechanism' context. The results suggested that a ‘project’ approach was likely able to increase carbon stocks without leakage in a short-term monitoring period. However a reduction of carbon stocks below baseline (‘leakage’) can be expected in the longer term if the tree planting approach did not provide off-farm employment opportunities to surrounding farmers. If costs of ‘extension’ and ‘social control on fire’ are assumed to be zero, the ‘programmatic’ approach to removing constraints to spontaneous smallholder adoption was likely able to increase both carbon stocks and farmers’ welfare better than the simulated ‘project’ approach. |
| Keywords | ASB, carbon, Clean Development Mechanism, Farmers, Farmers decision, Landscape, model, Programmatic approach., Project approach, welfare |
| URL | http://www.worldagroforestry.org/sea/publication?do=view_pub_detail&pub_no=WP0068-06 |
| Citation Key | 916 |
