TY - JOUR T1 - Land or plants: Agricultural tenure in agroforestry systems JF - Economic Botany Y1 - 1987 A1 - J. A. Weinstock A1 - N. T. Vergara KW - Borneo KW - Indonesia KW - land tenure KW - Melanesia KW - Papua New Guinea AB - The distinction between the rights to land and rights to plants is often overlooked when viewing agricultural tenure in developing countries. This distinction is crucial to understanding traditional agricultural systems, especially where agroforestry is practiced or its introduction has been proposed. Rights to land versus rights to plants are viewed in two Asia-Pacific agroforestry systems: one in Indonesian Borneo and the other in Papua New Guinea. Conflicts are discussed between the traditional dichotomy of land and plant rights and government policy. The success of an indigenous agroforestry system based on plant rights is contrasted to the failure of a proposed agroforestry system for similar reasons. It is concluded that the perceptual separation of land and plant rights needs to be explored if agroforestry practices are not only to be ecologically and economically feasible but also culturally acceptable. VL - 41 UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/4254970 IS - 2 U1 - Economic Botany JO - Land or Plants ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Rattan: Ecological balance in a Borneo rainforest swidden JF - Economic Botany Y1 - 1983 A1 - Joseph A. Weinstock KW - Borneo KW - economic botany KW - food crop production KW - rattan KW - split rattan KW - swiddens AB - Various agricultural startegies have been tried in swidden areas of tropical rainforest. Some have focused on food production, others on cash crops. Certain strategies have disrupted the ecological balance of the rainforest, while others developed with ecological stability in mind, but rarely have food production and cash cropping been coterminous and maintained ecological stability. Rattan in tropical rainforest swidden of southeastern Boreno is an indigenous system of producing both food and a cash crop without ecological disruption. VL - 37 UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/4254455 IS - 1 JO - Rattan ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The importance of women to agroforestry in Borneo JF - Pacific Health Y1 - 1981 A1 - Carol J. Pierce Colfer KW - agroforestry KW - Borneo KW - Indonesia KW - nutrition KW - women AB - In Borneo, a group of mountain people of the Dayak tribe recently moved from their old villages in the mountains to a new home by the coast. Though the Dayaks' lives have imprioved in many ways, the children are suffering from the great amount of machine-hulled rice in their new diet (machine-hulled rice is less nutricious than hand-hulled rice). One reason for this is the new availability of outside jobs; there is less time to plant and maintain vegetable gardens. Another is the important part played by women in food production; women are often overlooked in agricultural extension projects.
The specific solution here seems to be a strengthening of agroforestry enterprises involving Dayak women. In general, extension efforts should focus on the important food providers in any group, regardless of what gender they might be. (author) VL - 14 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - The tropical rain forest JF - Scientific American Y1 - 1973 A1 - Paul W. Richards KW - Amazon KW - Borneo KW - homeostatic mechanisms KW - mineral-transport system KW - rainforests KW - swiddens KW - tropical forests AB -

This paper addresses the scarcity of nutrients. This effects the food crops, rainforest, and the rest if the ecosystem. The recycling of the minerals is very rapid. Fungi and the decomposition of rocks help in adding nutrients to the ground. The primary rainforest is surviving, but barely.

The idea of a substitute or secondary forest is what is to replace the primary forest. These are phases to the growth of the secondary forest. These are grasses, including herbaceous dicotyledons, vines, shrubs, etc. Next is trees, soft-wooded, fast-growing, and short lived. After that is a cycle, the primary forest begins to form. In order for the primary forest to take shape, the secondary forest must be undistributed.

VL - 229 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican1273-58 IS - 6 ER -