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Agro-forestry and Fuel-wood in Java

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Alfred C. Smiet
Alfred C. Smiet
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Lecturer, School of Environmental Conservation Management, Environmental Conservation and Watershed Management, Training Project, PO Box 109, Bogor 16001, Indonesia.
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The issue of fuel-wood is often presented as problematical within the context of population pressures and poverty. However, the case of Java, noted for its extremely high human population density (830 people/km2) and its rural poverty, shows that agro-forestry-based fuel-wood production can sustainably meet the bulk of the annual demand of 90 million m3. Fuel-wood for household consumption is collected from gardens in or near the village of its use. Industrial users account for 10% of the demand and are supplied mainly by traders, the Javan Forest Service, and tree-crop estate managers.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1990 , pp. 235 - 238
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1990

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