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Unrelenting games: Multiple negotiations and landscape transformations in the tropical peatlands of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia


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Land use change is often a result of negotiation between different interests. Focusing on negotiation practices helps to provide a nuanced understanding of land use change processes over time. We examine negotiations within a concession model for land development in the southern tropical peatlands of Central Kalimantan province in Indonesia. This region can be described as a resource frontier, where historical landscape transformations from large development projects and oil palm plantations intersect with state models of forest conservation and recent Reducing Emissions from Degradation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) projects. The study drew on actor-network theory (ANT) and combined an ethnographic approach with document analysis for understanding how these landscape transformations and land allocation for large concessions has left a legacy of continuing uncertainty and conflict over land. There is considerable gaming between actors to achieve their desired outcome. Increased competition for land and contested legal arrangements mean that the negotiations are virtually never-ending. Winning at one stage of a negotiation may mean that those who feel they have lost will organise and use the system to challenge the outcomes. These findings show that attempts to implement pre-determined plans or apply global environmental goals at resource frontiers will become entangled in fluid and messy negotiations over land, rather than achieving any desired new status quo.


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  • Peatlands and climate change at the Tropical Peatlands Exchange 2018

Peatlands and climate change at the Tropical Peatlands Exchange 2018


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The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), with support from the government of Indonesia and participation of the private sector, organized a one-day event, the Tropical Peatlands Exchange 2018, to provide a platform for exchanges of information between stakeholders concerned with the sustainability of tropical peatlands in Indonesia. The outputs of the exchange can be scaled up to explore the possibility of engaging a broader range of partners and countries for a more effective south-south cooperation to tackle challenges around peatland conservation and restoration.

This is the recording of a session titled “Peatlands and climate change”, which took place on Aug. 8, 2018, in Bogor, Indonesia.

Originally published by CIFOR.


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  • Agroforestry on peatlands: combining productive and protective functions as part of restoration

Agroforestry on peatlands: combining productive and protective functions as part of restoration


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Abstract

The ASEAN countries, in particular Indonesia and Malaysia, are home to the worlds largest tropical peat stocks and have suffered the brunt of the conversion from natural forest cover to “fastwood” (trees grown for pulp and paper), oil-palm plantations and other agricultural use. In order to control the use of fire and to avoid the deep drainage that is responsible for degradation, government commitments need to go beyond good intentions alone. Land-use solutions are needed that provide local livelihoods while keeping the peat profiles wet. Fortunately, certain forms of agroforest offer solutions and can be promoted more widely.


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  • Activist Emmanuela Shinta discusses tackling peatland issues on a local level

Activist Emmanuela Shinta discusses tackling peatland issues on a local level


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Forests News editor Leona Liu spoke with Emmanuela Shinta, Dayak leader, filmmaker and activist from the Ranu Welum Foundation, during the Global Landscapes Forum: Peatlands Matter event in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 18, 2017.

Originally published at CIFOR’s Forests News


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  • ICRAF Geospatial Analyst Atiek Widayati talks about people and peat at GLF

ICRAF Geospatial Analyst Atiek Widayati talks about people and peat at GLF


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Forests News editor Leona Liu spoke with CGIAR Research Program on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry (FTA) scientist Atiek Widayati of the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) during the Global Landscapes Forum: Peatlands Matter in Jakarta, Indonesia, on May 18, 2017.

Originally published at CIFOR’s Forest News.


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