Abstract
Indonesia is a country with the largest tropical peatlands in the world. utilization of peatlands has been widely associated with fires and environmental issues like carbon dioxide emissions because of the highest land-use. The reduction or loss of the peat forest ecosystem for the development of dry land plants on a massive scale has reduced the quality of the environment, so that the function and benefits of the peat ecosystem as a hydrological buffer for the surrounding area are disturbed. This paper aims to synthesize all research results qualitatively to explore the potential for developing agroforestry systems on peatlands in an effort to increase food security and protect the environment. This review paper uses the Qualitative Review Systematics method with stages: 1) formulation of questions, 2) literature search, 3) screening and selecting appropriate research articles, 4) analyzing and synthesizing qualitative findings, 5) presenting finding. Agroforestry has the potential to have a real impact on food security, climate change including mitigation and adaptation, and preserving the environment. Some research results show that the agroforestry systems can be an effective buffer in peatlands in fire control because the peat stabilization process requires control materials to maintain the elemental composition, carboxyl (COOH) and OH-phenol functional groups, so that the peat conditions become stable.
Highlights
Indonesia is the fourth country that has the largest tropical peatlands in the world after Canada, Russia and the USA (Immirzi and Maltby, 1992)
The approach used in the preparation of this paper is meta aggregation (Lewin, 2008), namely by elaborating several research topics related to agroforestry systems to produce an analytical framework supported by the search for relevant research articles to be compared and summarized
In the meta -aggregation approach, the synthesis result is an "aggregate" of various research results according to the theme being studied
Summary
Indonesia is the fourth country that has the largest tropical peatlands in the world after Canada, Russia and the USA (Immirzi and Maltby, 1992). Peatlands have both an economic and ecological role. From an econom ic point of view, peatlands are important to the community and serve as an important source of livelihood. At least 25% of terrestrial C is contained in peatland which is much larger than in primary forest. This is the reason why peat is said to control the global climate; (2) as a hydrological buffer. The hydrological unit forms the basis for the designation of peat as a conservation zone (dome), buffer zone and use zone; (3) Biodiversity habitat because there are a number of endemic species that can only grow in the peat ecosystem (Ministry of environment, 2012)
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