Now on-line: The proceedings of the Lofoten Symposium on “Cultivating (in) Tropical Forests? The evolution and sustainability of systems of management between extractivism and plantations”, a conference supported by the European Union (FORRESASIA Project), European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN) and CIFOR.
Working within a context of NTFPs, shifting cultivation and native agroforestry practices throughout the tropics, the Symposium examined “forests” where many resources have been purposefully retained, encouraged or even planted, and which often do not correspond to western perceptions of plantation, orchard or garden. A series of case studies were presented to illustrate the rich variety of these systems and to explore the factors that lead to their development, persistence and decline.
The proceedings, edited by Heidi Asbjornsen, Arild Angelsen, Brian Belcher, Genevieve Michon, Manuel Ruiz-Peres, Vithanage Priyanthi Renuka Wijesekara, include an overview paper and abstracts of the individual presentations. It is published by ETFRN.
To get a copy of the document visit the ‘News’ section at www.etfrn.org/etfrn/index.html.