ACIAR’S FORESTRY PROGRAM IN INDONESIA Presentation to consultation workshop February 2007.
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Transcript of ACIAR’S FORESTRY PROGRAM IN INDONESIA Presentation to consultation workshop February 2007.
ACIAR’S FORESTRY PROGRAMIN INDONESIA
Presentation to consultation workshop
February 2007
• ACIAR’s Forestry Program – guiding parameters
• Current status of forestry in Indonesia
• Indonesian forestry – competitive advantages
• A vision for Indonesian forestry
• Current ACIAR-Indonesia forestry priorities
• ACIAR’s Indonesia project portfolio
• Key issues
OUTLINE
• Budget around $3 million annually
• Countrieso Indonesiao PNGo Pacifico Laoso Vietnam
• Focus on economic impacts
• Availability of Australian expertise
ACIAR’s FORESTRY PROGRAMSome guiding parameters
• Extensive, highly diverse tropical forests• sustainability challenge – over-exploitation, illegal logging
• Large plantation resource• teak• acacia – sustainability question
• Internationally significant processing sector• pulp and paper• plywood
• Major contribution to export economy
• Major contribution also to domestic economy• many communities dependent on forests for livelihoods• NTFPs• local processing, e.g. furniture
FORESTRY IN INDONESIA
• Extensive areas of native forest capable of sustained yield of a wide range of products, if properly managed
• Climate and soils conducive to good tree growth
• Large and expanding plantation estate
• Sophisticated processing industry
• Communities knowledgable about forests and aware of their importance
INDONESIAN FORESTRY – COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES
• Sustainably managed native forestso production of tropical timbero integrated with the production of a broad range of products and services
• A larger plantation estateo sustainably managedo appropriately sitedo extensive community involvemento feeding a large processing industry
• A larger, more diversified processing industry• Wider use of integrated agroforestry practices,
including for the production of non-timber forest products
A VISION FOR INDONESIAN FORESTRY
• Integrating pest and disease management with improved production systems in high value plantation crops
• Development and domestication of eastern Indonesian non-timber forest product species for income generation
• Development of tree farming models with improved smallholder-plantation company cooperation
• Improved utilisation and value addition of timber from fast-growing and high value plantation species
• Development of sustainable timber-crop-livestock systems for the dry tropics of Eastern Indonesia
CURRENT ACIAR-INDONESIA FORESTRY PRIORITIES
Bilateral Program
• Root rot of acacia plantations
• Site management for realisation of genetic gains in acacia plantations
• Community partnerships
• Commercial development of non-timber forest products in eastern Indonesia (under development)
• Integrated timber-forage-livestock agroforestry systems for eastern Indonesia (scoping study underway)
• Options for teak industry development in South-east Sulawesi (scoping study to be conducted)
• Processing technologies for diversification of plantation timber processing (under development)
ACIAR’s INDONESIAN FORESTRY PORTFOLIO
Multilateral Program
• Agroforestry mozaics (ICRAF)
• Decentralisation (CIFOR)
• Improving economic outcomes for smallholders growing teak (CIFOR)
ACIAR’s INDONESIAN FORESTRY PORTFOLIO
• How best to deploy ACIAR’s investment in Indonesian forestry
• plantations
• processing
• non-timber forest products
• etc
• Linking with capacity building
• e.g. maximising JAF opportunities
KEY ISSUES