New Options for Land Rehabilitation and Landscape Ecology in Southeast Asia by “Rainforestation Farming”

Authors:
Go_ltenboth, F. and C-P. Hutter

Publication Date:
2004

Abstract/Summary:
One innovative approach to combine the necessities of rural development, safe natural resource management and biodiversity restoration was developed under the acronym ‘‘Rainforestation Farming’’ on the island of Leyte in the Philippines. More than 100 different local forests and fruit tree species were tested and planted in a near-to-nature planting scheme concerning species composition in a former degraded area covered by Imperata cylindrica.

Resource Type:
Peer-reviewed Article

Source:
Journal for Nature Conservation

Link:
http://www.rainforestation.ph/resources/pdf/publications/Goltenboth_and_Hutter_2004_New_options_for_land_rehabilitation.pdf