Assessing economic value of community forestry for sustainable rural development

Endah Saptutyningsih,Taufiq Waisy Alqharni,M Senge,A.A Aziz,Triyono Triyono,M.M Tjale,M.F Kamarudin,Z Rozaki

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202131602006

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Abstract

Community forestry contributes to the rural economy in a variety of ways: directly as a consumer of land and services to convert biological and other inputs into a variety of outputs; indirectly through its linkages with upstream producers and downstream processing sectors; and indirectly through the re-spending in rural areas of portions of income generated from forestry and related industries. through the provision of non-market benefits; and a pleasant living atmosphere for many people. This study aims to estimate the economic value of community forests in Pajangan, Bantul district. The benefits of community forests can be direct use values and indirect use values. The benefits of Pajangan community forests are estimated using the Total Economic Value (TEV) method. The result shows that TEV of IDR 70,298,307,526 per year, consisting of direct use value of IDR 9,344,000,000 per year, the indirect use value of IDR 35,274,178,836 per year. It is critical to provide economic incentives for communities to participate in sustainable rural development such as ensuring that the full economic value of forests is recognized and reflected in both economic and forestry decision-making, with a focus on economic costs and benefits that accrue at the community level.

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The steady decline of forest resources was caused by rising human and animal populations, as well as the consequences of government land registration regulations [1]
Several studies have found that impoverished people are excluded from community forestry benefits [7], because decision-making forums are dominated by elites [8, 9]
The location selection was carried out because it was assessed that the existence of a community forest area (HR) in Pajangan District, Bantul Regency was very beneficial for the lives of village communities around the forest, so it is hoped that after an economic valuation is carried out, the decision makers can make appropriate policies for the purpose of preserving the area. community forest in Pajangan District, Bantul Regency

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The steady decline of forest resources was caused by rising human and animal populations, as well as the consequences of government land registration regulations [1]. In the late 1970s, community forestry was established in recognition of the need of citizen participation in natural resource management. This technique was developed at a period when forest development plans from the 1950s and 1960s were criticized for ignoring rural development and failing to fulfill the basic requirements of the rural poor [2]. Many research findings in various countries, developing ones, have demonstrated people's reliance on forests' existence, in poorer areas such as Nepal's Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve [3], Indonesia [4,5], Kenya [6], and elsewhere. Community forestry is the control and management of forest resources by rural people who use them primarily for domestic needs and as an integrated element of their farming systems. It has been cited in other research as having a favorable impact on poverty reduction [10,11,12]

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